Quotes About Uncertainty

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.

If you flip a coin 1000 times, eventually it's going to roll away someplace where you can't get it.

When there are too many choices, or the answer does not seem obvious, it seems better to go with the flow; after all, you might miss out on something good.

I don't know what 'the big time' is really, except that it's probably some terrible place you can't get out of, you know… or you fall from it and break all your bones, or you try to go further and burn up.

Excuse me, but can you be a little more vague?

Many people are looking for security instead of opportunity.

Next time I'd think twice about thinking twice.

If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.

Where, exactly, was this hell?

am I going to live"?

The sense of security which she thought she had found disappeared; the bottom fell out of her world and she felt herself falling into an abyss of unbelieving despair.

She thought she must be ill, though she had no idea what was wrong with her. All she knew was that the world had become a frightening place.

And again that idea makes you crazy, that any dumb, stupid freak thing--being late for a puppet show, a lightning strike, somebody falling in a store--can bomb your plans to hell.

I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Según cómo se mire qué? —preguntó Jared. No estaba seguro de si aquella criatura le resultaba divertida o temible.

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

The goal of the poem is not to conceal uncertainty and to deliver an airtight argument, or proclamation, or insight, not to arrive at some truth, but rather to display the nature of the speaker's "real-time" sensibility, including its tendency toward indecisiveness and self-contradiction.

six human needs and they are: contribution, growth, connection, significance, uncertainty, and certainty.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come.