Quotes About Uncertainty

It was a dashed tricky thing, of course, to have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right.

the hand that counteth its chickens ere they be hatched oft-times doth but step on the banana-skin.

have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the other hand, it may not be all right. And pretty silly a chap would feel, no doubt, if, having split the atom, he suddenly found

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for anyone?

because in that moment you'll have gone so far I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking, Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

Si he muerto y no me he dado cuenta A quién le pregunto ahora?

because in that moment you'll have gone so far Pll wander mazily over all the earth, asking, Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.

What we know comes to so little, what we presume is so much, what we learn, so laborious, we can only ask questions and die.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

I didn't know what the future held in store for me, but I felt hopeful.

Sometimes we kid ourselves when we imagine our lives, expecting that everything will neatly fall into place.

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

I don't believe for one moment that I killed him [...] But if I didn't, somebody else did. I must appoint myself Investigator. I must catch this malefactor, this pig. And if at any time it looks as if I am going to catch myself, I can always accept my resignation.

She reached up, held his face between her palms. How can I help but fret? You live wi' death on your heels. For your sake, lass, I promise to stay one step ahead.

God Sophie... If there were any chance we could be together... If there were any woman I'd want to be the mother of my... Shit, this is so hard. No, Hunt, it's simple. If right now is all we have, if this is all we get, then I'll grab it with both hands and take all I can.

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

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Colin was beginning to be afraid(...)of the future, of the possibility, suddenly glimpsed, that his life might end like this. Like most young people, he'd always assumed, without ever really thinking about it, that regret, waste, failure lay in wait for others, but not for him. Now(...)he realized, for the first time, that he was not exempt, that this, unless he took steps to avoid it, could happen to him.

A flicker of fear, but it faded. The man looked round the room again, as if searching for something, but for something inside himself, Colin thought. For something he ought to feel, and couldn't.

his experience, premonitions of disaster were almost invariably proved false, and the road to Calvary entered on with the very

have an affinity for choosing the tightrope walk across the abyss and have developed a genius for the wrong turn.

Sensing that Mrs. Brown was preparing to launch a verbal grenade but not knowing exactly how to divert the attack, I simply shrugged my shoulders and prepared for the worst.

The difference between today and tomorrow is some thing called change. It takes courage to embrace the future, because the future is about change, and change brings uncertainty and anxiety. We fear change; we prefer the comfort of the familiar. But change is inevitable. If we do not become future-focused, we are doomed to obsolescence when tomorrow arrives.