Quotes About Uncertainty

Perfection was no protection. Disaster had a way of dropping by just when you least expected it.

But how long can a person float, looking at an empty horizon? How long do you drift before you call it quits?

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

That was the frightening part about believing in things. You could wake up one day and it could all be gone.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

She was drifting outside the limit of all reason, where the next stop was light-years away through nothing but darkness.

The future was a white fog into which I would vanish, unmarked by the flourish of rustling taffeta blue and gold. No mother to guide me. I

Žinai, aukš?io baim? yra sav?s baim? - niekad nežinai, kada gali nušokti žemyn.

It made me feel dizzy, like I wanted to grab hold of something heavy and hang on. This was the life I was going to be living, everyone separated from everyone else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too. My mother might never know where I was, and in a few years, if someone asked her about me, she might shrug like this and say, "Haven't seen her in two, three years.

Are you gay?' Paul Trout asked me. I shrugged. Maybe that would be better. I thought back to how I felt when Olivia danced with me, and the time Claire kissed me on the lips. I didn't know. People just wanted to be loved. That was the things about words, they were clear and specific -- chair, eye, stone -- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.

TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.

Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

In fact, the fast-changing, dynamic character of London makes perpetual Labour domination unlikely. Things are so fast-moving it would be impossible to say what the situation might look like in five years, let alone 10 or 15.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

It is unnatural for drivers and team members to be sitting on their hands when we would usually be racing.

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I'm extra cautious because no one knows what they're doing half the time. You don't know what this guy is going to do or that one.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.