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Quotes About Uncertainty

And then you pushed through into a dim space inhabited by a faintly confusing sense of the half-dozen other bars that had tried and failed in the same room under different managements.
~ William Gibson
His toes were making little squelching noises, each time he took a step, and what if the last thing you knew before you died was just some pathetic discomfort like that, like your shoes were soaked and your socks were wet, and you weren't ever going to get to change them? Rydell
~ William Gibson
I don't know. You might say what I am is basically defined by the fact that I don't know, because I can't know.
~ William Gibson
So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming anyway.
~ William Gibson
If there were such a being," she said, "you'd be a part of it, wouldn't you?" "Yes." "Would you know?" "Not necessarily." "Do you know?" "No." "Do you rule out the possibility?" "No.
~ William Gibson
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
~ William Golding
I'm frightened. Of us.
~ William Golding
We think we know . Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.
~ William Golding
We don't know much about our current selves, do we?
~ William Golding
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now—and the ship had gone.
~ William Golding
Quizá haya una bestia… quizá solo estemos nosotros
~ William Golding
I'm frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.
~ William Golding
Nereye gideceÄŸimizi belki biliyorlar, belki de bilmiyorlard?. Ama nerede olduÄŸumuzu bilmiyorlar; çünkü biz gideceÄŸimiz yere varamad?k.
~ William Golding
Talvez", disse ele, hesitante, "talvez exista um monstro".[...] "Não sei", Seu coração batia forte e quase o sufocava. "Mas..." [...] "Eu queria dizer que... pode ser só a gente.
~ William Golding
Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
~ William Golding
This dreadful eruption from an unknown world
~ William Golding
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
~ William Goldman
There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.
~ William Goldman
In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
~ William Goldman
I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
~ William Goldman
If there's ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong.
~ William Goldman
I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it is over I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.
~ William Goldman
William Goldman
~ Is it safe?
That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.
~ William Goldman