Quotes About Uncertainty

Mr. Parkes, finding himself in the position of having got into metaphysics without exactly seeing his way out of them, stammered forth an apology and retreated from the argument.

And Master --or Mister--Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what.

But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength.

The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the

None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it.

Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

Perhaps. Perhaps, see the great crowd of people with its rush and roar, bearing down upon them, too.

Thus, with no one to advise her—for she could advise with no one without seeming to complain against him—gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr. Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her.

What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?

Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope.

The bright day is done and we are for the dark.

As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with

I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel, and how exposed to hundreds of chances. All my expectations depend on one person. And how indefinite and uncertain they are!

Eu sei, eu sei que não posso ter esperanças de dizer que a senhora é minha, Estella. Eu não sei o que está para acontecer comigo, se vou ficar pobre ou para onde vou. Mas, mesmo assim, eu a amo. Amo-a desde a primeira vez em que a vi nesta casa.

There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...

He looked about him in a confused way, as if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again.

karars?zl?klar içinde bocalayarak ne anlat?lmaz i?kenceler çektim, Ulu Tanr?m! Aylarca her ak?am kendi sorular?m?, "Hay?r," diye yan?tlad?m; gene de ertesi sabah kendi kendime ayn? konuyu tazeleyip ayn? sorular? sormaktan kendimi alamad?m.

I don't know what day of the month it is!" said Scrooge. "I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop!

I know,' said I, in answer to that action; 'I know. I have no hope that I shall ever call you mine, Estella. I am ignorant what may become of me very soon, how poor I may be, or where I may go. Still, I love you. I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house.