Quotes About Uncertainty

And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.

nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for

Jobs seemed to have a premonition that his life would soon be changing. Perhaps the thread of his life would indeed

By late February 2009 Jobs had secured a place on the Tennessee list (as well as the one in California), and the nervous waiting began. He was declining rapidly by the first week in March, and the waiting time was projected to be twenty-one days. "It was dreadful," Powell recalled. "It didn't look like we would make it in time." Every day became more excruciating. He moved up to third on the

The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory." What

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

Our faith was a flickering flame.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

For language is by no means a perfect vehicle of meanings. Words, like currency, are turned over and over again, to evoke one set of images to-day, another to-morrow. There is no certainty whatever that the same word will call out exactly the same idea in the reader's mind as it did in the reporter's.

Trustin' a woman is like walkin' in California," Coydog would say. "You know there's bound to be a quake sometimes but you just keep on walkin' anyways. What else could you do?

Most of human life is defined by waiting

But when you live a life among desperate men and women, any door you open might have Pandora written all over the other side.

That which is neither ill nor well. That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell, A wreath of the mist, a bubble of the stream, 'Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream; A form that men spy With the half-shut eye. In the beams of the setting sun, am I.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Predicting the long-term economics of companies that operate in fast-changing industries is simply far beyond our perimeter.

When Charlie and I finish reading the long footnotes detailing the derivatives activities of major banks, the only thing we understand is that we don't understand how much risk the institution is running.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.

Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

How are we supposed to live in the future when the future just abandons us to the night?

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.