Quotes About Uncertainty

Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus, but dared not ask for fear the answer would lead to the end of the annual largesse of Christmas.

don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope

Come with us!" shouted one of the Indonesians. Bean thought this was probably a good idea. Since the assassination attempt had included one backup, it might include more, and the sooner he got out of there the better. Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends.

Aunque no podía conocerse el futuro, probablemente sería mucho mejor que sus peores miedos y no tan bueno como sus mejores esperanzas. ¿No funcionaba así siempre el mundo?

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

it would probably be a good deal better than their worst fears and nowhere near as good as their best hopes.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Perhaps that was why she was sure she had to go to Vigor Church and on to where Alvin was. Because fear told her to stay, but hope told her to go.

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. Yet

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell His sightless soul may stray.

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. (Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest)

We know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All we know who lie in gaol Is that the walls are strong And each day is like a year A year whose days are long.

It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

When he returned from the war he said to Nurit that he wasn't sure that all of him had come home.