Quotes About Uncertainty

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kahr?mdam ölecekmi?im gibi geliyordu da, ne zamandan beri kahroldu?umu, bu duyguyu haftan?n hangi gününde alg?lad???m?, dahas? bunu alg?layan?n ben, kendim olup olmad???n? do?ru dürüst kestiremiyordum bile.

?leride ne yapaca??n? hiç dü?ündün mü?" "Hay?r. ?lerisiyle ilgili herhangi bir ?ey dü?ünmekten korkuyorum çünkü.

was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it. At last, however, he began to think—as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it.

But fashions are like human beings. They come in, nobody knows when, why, or how; and they go out, nobody knows when, why, or how. Everything is like life, in my opinion, if you look at it in that point of view.

Not to make Joe uneasy by talking too much, even if I had been able to talk much, I deferred asking him about Miss Havisham until next day. He shook his head when I then asked him if she had recovered? 'Is she dead, Joe?' 'Why, you see, old chap,' said Joe, in a tone of remonstrance, and by way of getting at it by degrees, 'I wouldn't go so far as to say that, for that's a deal to say; but she ain't -' 'Living, Joe?' 'That's nigher where it is,' said Joe; 'she ain't living.

put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Doctor, if something goes wrong, there is probably squat-all we can do about it, anyway. I'm sure you folks have been chatting about the ship that just came in so you're probably guessing the same thing I am: that if these Dornaani wanted to put their foot up our ass and wriggle their toes out our nostrils, I doubt there's a thing in creation we could do about it.

The old world falls apart, but the new has not emerged. Everything that once seemed permanent and real is revealed as a kind of hallucination. You don't know what to think, what to do; you don't know what anything means anymore. The life trajectory you had plotted out seems absurd, and you can't imagine another one. Everything is uncertain.

To put it in more shocking terms, it doesn't matter if the skeptics are right or not, because the assumptions on which the debate is based are already enough to doom us to a dystopian future.

You can trust Him to lead you wisely—even when the way is unclear. Have faith in His ability to teach you.

We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...

Call it swoon, or call it hypnosis--but that it is never absolute, and that all of us sometimes have awareness of our condition, and moments of wondering what it's all about and why we do and think the things that sometimes we wake up and find ourselves doing and thinking. Upon

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

When in doubt, tell a funny 'til you see what the other fellow is going to do.

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

The chill of some vague fear was upon him.

Life is questions and answers, ebbing and flowing in endless waves

Life is an inconstant mix of aces and jokers, and often one is flipped face up when we're expecting the other.

Life is a mortal maze...

Are you sure we are making the most of it?

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Five snoozes into your Monday alarm clock and you wonder if the $36 in your account will last the rest of your life if you quit.