Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel...

At every turn I took, I prayed that I would not stumble over her body. Every time I didn't, it gave me hope that she was still alive.

But let's face it: Understanding me—I mean, really understanding me and my nutty life—isn't so easy. That's why it's so hard for me to find people I can trust. The truth is, I don't know who I can trust. So mostly I don't trust anybody. Except my mom, Jules. (Most of the time, anyway.)

Five minutes," I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?

I had questioned God. I had thought that I was so special, I could hold God to account. And why? I had never been promised, ever, that life would be safe and have a happy ending for myself and those I knew and loved, if only I had faith in Him. A

had a sneaking suspicion that

How do you know anything for sure? I thought. But i knew the answer to that already. You don't

Ray Bradbury had once written that "living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down." Sampson

We couldn't know the future or how long it would last. We could only choose to be happy and alive right now.

Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette, which is that there is nothing so consistently dangerous, not to mention more likely to mess with your head and leave you muttering into your beer, than playing it safe.

Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it applies to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette, which is that there is nothing so consistently dangerous, not to mention more likely to mess with your head and leave you muttering into your beer, than playing it safe.

The color of truth is gray.

life will deceive us with relative predictability for long periods until, at the moments when we begin to feel the most comfortable, it unfolds, reminding us how powerless we all are.

A vida é aquilo que acontece quando se está ocupado a fazer outros planos

We're on our way. I don't know.

have thought so much could change in one summer? Not me, that's for sure. Not my best buddy, Leonardo the Silent. Probably not the folks at Airbrook Arts Community School either. That's where I was supposed to start seventh grade in the fall. Supposed to. You

You know," Melanie says, "most of the time things turn out well." "You're wrong. Most of the time things do not turn out well, and when they do, it's dangerous to expect that to last.

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of the sky.

Que sera, sera.

My eyes burned on the grainy screen. I was also sure we were looking at

ever hear of anyone falling

Going into the unknown, being willing to die and leave everything behind—this is the job.