Quotes About Uncertainty

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

God only knows the future,' said St.Clare. 'I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Are you sure it wouldn't work?" said Jo urgently, in a quiet voice. "Are you sure you don't want to see him again? Laura wanted to laugh. Those were two totally separate things, weren't they?

I hate the fact that it obsesses me so much. Who're we gonna end up with? It's a race, and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on." "That's rubbish. He's out there, I promise." "How do you know?" " I don't," said Elle firmly. " I just like to kid myself that he is. And if he's not, well, there's more to life than just hanging around ruining your life waiting for him. Much more.

Change is an anxiety-arousing business because whenever you make a change, you can't make only one. There is no guarantee where it will stop.

'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.

Birth is as safe as life gets.

And a plastic grocery bag containing a

Fi . That's 'if' backwards. Griffiths . Nice ordinary name, but two more 'if's lurking at the heart of it. My name, literally, is as iffy as you can get. The only solid sound, the only one you can actually hang on to, is that opening G, and it's not to be trusted.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

It was not any one thing that scared him. It was everything. It was his life. His life terrified him. He didn't see how he was going to get through the rest of it.

E,in zilele noastre un om de afaceri are tensiune cu carul, mai cu seama intr-un comert cu medicamente cu bucata, cind n-ai cum sa stii,dimineata, la deschidere,daca vreun ticnit de hippy n-o sa dea peste tine si n-o sa-ti arda un glont.

Aber vielleicht war es das alles zugleich, unter Vernachlässigung des Gesetzes des ausgeschlossenen Dritten und zur ewigen Beschämung derjenigen, die glaubten, etwas davon zu verstehen.

Perhaps you knew for sure when you loved someone, but then she'd never loved anyone yet, and perhaps she would have to accept that she never would.

The world was a soup and thought was generally a fork: it seldom resulted in a good meal.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

Jerry had trouble imagining himself in his thirties, much less his seventies. What would 2024 look like? The politics would have to be better than today's. They couldn't very well be any worse!

For some idiot reason, the idea of going into the drink with a misspelled safety device weirded Bryce out.

It's funny, isn't it. You plan for years, play 9 tough games, and then your hopes of a World Cup win and the resultant career-high rest on an hour and a half of T20 equivalent cricket.

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

A leader has to have the emotional capacity to tolerate uncertainty, frustration, and pain. He has to be able to raise tough questions without getting too anxious himself.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.