Quotes About Uncertainty

I had no idea that I'd end up working for a woman who can't decide if I'm a career-ender or her boyfriend.

Tell me what you're afraid of,' Jacob said. Shit, I thought, this could take all day. My life was ruled by my fears.

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans.

I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.

Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans." (God-shaped Hole)

As the word came of the German advance, there were hushed and frantic conversations at the hotel during the second week in June 1940. To stay or to go was the pressing question

Ignorance may sometimes be bliss, but not when you're wondering whether or not you're on the right train or if what you're about to eat is filled with bean paste and now chocolate.

Ignorance may sometimes be bliss, but not when you're wondering whether or not you're on the right train or if what you're about to eat is filled with bean paste and not chocolate.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.

Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.

I want to walk beside you in the drizzle and say you can move in with me tonight, right away, even though this time they'll probably evict me and although I'm moving out in three weeks anyway

as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So

The most exciting holidays are the ones where not everybody is going to make it.

worry is usually interest paid on a debt that never comes due.

Is he dead?" "Not sure," said Serge, "but blood from the ears rarely precedes a big dance number.

Serge looked up. 'I hope you've learned your lesson.' They nodded quickly and hard. 'And that lesson,' said Serge, 'is that you never really know whom you're fucking with, so best not to do it at all.

Maybe she has no idea what happened to us, even if we're alive or dead. Look at your life.

At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.

There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

The first time in my career I thought it makes no sense anymore, that I'll retire.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.