Quotes About Uncertainty

Perron did not clearly hear what Ahmed said, but it sounded like, 'It seems to be me they want.

She wanted to ask, How long? A year? Less more? Any time? But she had lived long enough to know that you did not ask questions to which there were no answers and which you didn't want answered.

the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.

frightened people shriek the loudest and fire at random.

Are we not all creatures of chance?

Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.

Here, on the ground, nothing is likely, everything possible.

The whole point of adventure is that it is unplanned; a leap in the dark, verging on the unfortunate, offering glimpses of danger; and what separates adventure from disaster is that you live to tell the tale.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

I walked for an hour and then returned by a different route to wait out the weekend. It was one of those empty interludes in travel, an airless unrewarding delay, when nothing occurs except a rising sense of loneliness and uncertainty, a darkening of prospects, the condition of being an outsider with all of a stranger's suspicions.

Nothing fully prepares you for the strangeness of the border experience.

This is eloquent but tentative, self-deceiving, and hedging the bet.

Could be dangerous," Diego said

Nothing is stranger than being in a fairly bad place and being told that another place-your destination-is a great deal worse.

All serious travelers arrive at this doubting, why-bother juncture, stalling on the road, sometime or other.

Mayhem and uncertainty in Mexico caused the US State Department to devise, in 2018, a new, four-tier advisory system for travelers to the country, to replace the previous system of unspecific travel warnings and travel alerts: Level 1, Exercise Normal Precautions (much of Mexico); Level 2, Exercise Increased Caution (Cancún, Cozumel, Mexico City); Level 3, Reconsider Travel (Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco); and Level 4, Do Not Travel (Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, Taxco).

on the border itself, the US immigration officer answered one of my questions by saying, "I have no idea. I don't have a clue. I have never been there"—and raised his blue arm and the yellow nail of his hairy finger to point across fifty feet of sunny road to Mexico.

Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He

A René por el contrario, se le veía ciego de deseo ante ella, paralizado por un amor que él no había conocido hasta entonces, un amor lleno de inquietud, inseguro de ser correspondido y temeroso de desagradar.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.

making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.