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Quotes About Uncertainty

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.
~ Iris Origo
Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.
~ John McCain
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
~ Michel de Montaigne
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
~ Christopher Morley
All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.
~ Philip Bobbitt
Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
~ Charles Bukowski, Women
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
~ Diana Trilling
Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
~ Lillian B. Rubin
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.
~ Charles Bukowski, Women
She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.
~ Núria Añó
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.
~ Núria Añó
And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.
~ Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens
I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f
~ Ovid, The Erotic Poems
I like games of chance, including women.
~ Raymond Chandler, Nevada-Gas
What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?
~ Kya Aliana
So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?
~ Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.
~ Alden Ehrenreich
I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.
~ Brooke Burke
I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.
~ Tyler Farr
No one knows what they're doing. I remember going into an interview with a big star and I was nervous. Then I realised they were more nervous. I realised I was the one with the power because I was the one asking the questions.
~ Laura Whitmore
I was very surprised when I watched 'Star Wars,' and I thought, 'Oh, that's me. I've been blown up.' Then, I came back again. I really didn't know what was happening!
~ Denis Lawson
I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
~ Victor Cruz