Quotes About Uncertainty

Later she would wonder if this had made her miss her chance, or if she had ever had a chance at all.

He never completed the sentence, but in his imagined future, he floated away, untethered.

I don't have a plan, I'm afraid...But then, no one really does, no matter what they say.

We can't understand the world, nothing prepares you for life

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Attendre est encore une occupation. C'est ne rien attendre qui est terrible.

É difícil dizer onde acaba o pavor e começa a fé.

Ma viene un momento, certe volte, che una ha paura del tempo che passa, e non sa più se val la pena di correre tanto.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without 'for me' and without 'for them.' It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, and constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground."

I don't know" is not a phrase for the insecure.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

All that we can say is that the belief in God is universal—with those who believe in him. And even here universality of belief is only secured by their refraining from discussing precisely what it is they mean by "God," and what it is they believe in. There is agreement in obscurity, each one dreading to see clearly the features of his assumed friend for fear he should recognise the face of an enemy.

Going to war is like going to law - the only certain outcome is the cost

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

I was so taken aback by the question that I had to think about my response for a minute. Had I heard what I thought I heard? ... Remembering Zora Neale Hurston's Janie, I felt something inside me fall off the shelf, and I had to go inside and look around to see what it was.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats…. I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland.They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.

We (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly. We had a report somewhere around 4 o'clock in the afternoon before that the weather would be fine, so we thought we would try it.