Quotes About Uncertainty

Hmm. I don't know if that's a 'yes' or a 'go eat worms,'" Rollan admitted.

I see you going to the giving-up place in your head. Get yourself out of there right now. We do not know he's dead any more than we did an hour ago. What we have to do is keep searching, because he's only definitely dead if we give up and sit here like moping camels. You are not allowed to mourn until you see a dead body, do you understand me?

Why aren't they moving?" Cricket asked. She hesitated at a large tree root, inspected the shadows around it, then gingerly stepped over it. "Stupid question. We obviously don't know," Nettle muttered. "Never seen snakes act like this.

She doesn't know where they are, or where we are.

be like seeing ghosts or scavengers

She closed her eyes and tried to see if a future unfolded around that idea. Would she end up in the asylum?

And what would happen now? What if her dragonet was broken? After all the lying and worrying, she wasn't sure she could survive if there was something wrong. I will love her anyway, she thought fiercely, hoping that was true.

felt like heading off the edge of the world. For most of the trip, we couldn't see any land in any direction — maybe an island in the distance,

Aha," Rollan said. "I knew that boll weevil in my soup last night looked suspicious.

We'll probably never see him again.

Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT?

Starflight looked as if someone had just asked him whether breathing was really necessary.

Quite clearly. Also a few where you die tomorrow. Actually the next couple of months are quite perilous for you altogether.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn't enough sometimes.

That's life you know? It is all one big waiting room. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. And then, like you, sometimes it's great.

truly nimble organizations dare to create clarity at all times, even when they are not completely certain about whether it is correct. And if they later see a need to change course, they do so without hesitation or apology, and thus create clarity around the new idea or answer.

commitment cannot occur if people are unclear about exactly what is being committed to.

And think of our poor doctor, all alone among them damned trees – why, there might be owls.

He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him:

certainly. Would

Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch

Nobody, anywhere, has any real sense what is actually going on. This doesn't seem to get a very good reaction from the crowd - no doubt I'm scowling as I say it, but still. I continue: I don't either, but at least I know I don't. I'm sorry but you people aren't like me. This is me trying to take the edge off. Being friendly. You haven't done the shit I've done.

frame is a mystery.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?