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Quotes About Uncertainty

You a brave person?' 'I don't know.' 'You'll find out soon enough.
~ Jasper Fforde
Really?" I asked, which is probably the only answer to anything in Conspiracy.
~ Jasper Fforde
Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about
~ Jasper Fforde
Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.
~ Jasper Fforde
I've always been suspicious of game changers,' she added. 'Sometimes the game doesn't need changing – or no one has a clear idea of which game will be changed, and for what and how much.
~ Jasper Fforde
The leader was identified by his dental records—why he had them on him, no one was quite sure.
~ Jasper Fforde
La gente empieza viendo una cosa y acaba viendo la contraria. Empieza amando y acaba odiando, o sintiendo indiferencia y después adorando. Nunca logramos estar seguros de qué va a sernos vital ni de a quién vamos a dar importancia. Nuestras convicciones son pasajeras y endebles, hasta las que consideramos más fuertes.También nuestros sentimientos.
~ Javier Marías
With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
~ Jay Leno
You described the feeling you'd always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn't worry quite so much about why.
~ Jay McInerney
The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.
~ Jay McInerney
Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Panic attacks were like earthquakes. It wasn't a matter of if there would be another one. It was only a question of when it would strike. She had discovered the hard way that it might be weeks, months or even years between attacks. Or it could be tomorrow night.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
We all make the best choices we can with the information we have available at the time we have to make them. None of us ever has enough information to be absolutely sure we're making the right choice.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Maybe his worst nightmare had finally become his new reality.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Patlama hep bir vaat, bir umut ????? olmuÅŸtur. ÖrneÄŸin Harrisburg'de herkes filmdeki gibi nükleer patlaman?n gerçekleÅŸeceÄŸi ân? beklemekte ve patlasa da biz de ÅŸu ne idüÄŸü belirsiz panik duygusuyla cayd?rma amaçl? nükleer patlama düÅŸüncesinden kurtulsak diyecek hâle gelmektedir.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The balance of terror is the terror of balance.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Beyond the end: the only unrestricted view. Running after your shadow: the only way out from perpetual motion. Dispersing the viewpoints: the only solution to the squaring of the circle. His hypocritical air derived from the fact that he suffered simultaneously from an inferiority and a superiority complex towards himself. The principle of insufficient reason: the only things that really take place are those which do not have sufficient reason to do so.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Foresight being the memory of the future, when everything is seeable nothing is any longer foreseeable.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Our greatest adversaries now threaten us only with their disappearance.
~ Jean Baudrillard
We are real only by chance, and immortal without knowing it.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Current events are an incurable illness.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is like truth according to Nietzsche: we no longer believe that the truth is true when all its veils have been removed. Similarly, we do not believe that war is war when all uncertainty is supposedly removed and it appears as a naked operation. The nudity of war is no less virtual than that of the erotic body in the apparatus of striptease.
~ Jean Baudrillard