Quotes About Uncertainty

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly!

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting...

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

Thinking about life and how short it is. How we're always just a breath away from overturned in the ditch with a fireman cutting you out with the Jaws of Life. It was just one of those moments where I knew, really knew, that life is not guaranteed. That I take it for granted. I wake up each day thinking I'll wake up tomorrow, too. It's not necessarily true.

Life at seventeen seemed so clear.

When in doubt, move, even if it's in the wrong direction.

What is your work in this world?" "I don't know what it is yet. I'm back in school now." "It's getting pretty late in the day for you to have so few interests and convictions. How old are you, Mr. Midge?

Once Ryan asked Kurt, "What are you going to do when you're thirty?" "I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty," Kurt replied in the same tone he would use to discuss a broken spark plug, "because I'm never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty—I don't want that.

Yang aku tahu, aku sedang diliputi perasaan bahagia karena jatuh cinta dan aku tidak tahu musikku bakal berubah atau tidak.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up.

All human affairs rest upon probabilities, and the same thing is true everywhere. If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted would betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every great fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

If I had learned anything after years in the business, it was how little I could ever know about what the market would do tomorrow.

You swallow hard, thinking to yourself, 'It must be all right, thousands of people have done it before.' Then... 'But this time it's me — that's the difference!'

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

Jeff wished he were a computer himself. It sounded so calm and certain. He, as usual, was terrified.

Estranged from family and friends While racking our brains whether The world we see is truly out there, Or it never leaves our minds.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

For most of us, life is messy and confusing, filled with paradoxes. We wake up in the night, worrying about our jobs, our kids, or the best laid plans, which suddenly unravel due to the pressures of living in our high-tech, fast-moving world. One day we seem to have things under control; the next day we get steamrollered by events. If you haven't experienced this, please write me; you would be the first person I know to have life all together.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.