Quotes About Uncertainty

and although he doubted they would try anything that drastic again,

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O'Connor

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

I don't mind not knowing exactly where I am—sometimes I enjoy it. There's a sense of freedom in not being able to predict what lies over the next ridge, where the next lake is, and where the next valley leads. I enjoy the release of wandering through what is, from my perspective, uncharted territory. I never intend to lose myself, but when it happens I view it as an opportunity rather than a problem.

Understand that being able to say, 'I don't know what to do with my life' is an incredible privilege that 99% of the rest of the world will never enjoy.

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

They believe all connections are temporary, so to cling to them makes no sense. When someone is gone, they're gone. Live for now; the present is all there is. You can't know what will happen next, so why worry? Consequences are natural and.inevitable. just do what you feel you must.

Living without anchors had its consequences. It was dangerously easy to drift.

The element of uncertainty is one of night's special pleasures.

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.

Whoever did this may still be here.

I..." She clutched at Walter's shirtfront. "I don't know! There was no one! No one!

I want to be wrong. I want this all to have a reasonable...

Do I look like I could have thrown a goddamn piano out a window?" She waved her hand. "Does he?

Where is he?" Bell asked. "Do you think something might have happened to him?" Walter asked anxiously. "Latimer? Or maybe...

They waited nearly two hours, but it was becoming increasingly clear that, for whatever reason, he wasn't going to show.

Of course, this kind of speculation was a waste of mental energy, and he knew it. All they could do at that point was watch and wait.

She felt warm and satisfied, but all the questions and uncertainty about the true nature of their connection still lurked there in the background, like wind rattling the windows of a cozy room. It was a long time before she slept.

Why didn't he show up?