Quotes About Uncertainty

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;

But cruel are the times, when we are traitors, And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and none

The time approaches That will with due decision make us know What we shall say we have and what we owe. Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate, But certain issue strokes must arbitrate; Towards which, advance the war. They exit marching.

I hope they will not come upon us now. King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd; And I myself see not the bottom of it.

And whether we shall meet again, I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take. Forever and forever farewell, Cassius. If we do meet again, why we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure.

But since the affairs of men rest still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings.

You never know what is the next direction your life will take

Life's an Unceartian Voyage

Somehow I still could not believe that this life we all have together would ever be changed.

could still be alive

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

War will find us whether we are ready or not.

They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you will find on the pillow.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.

Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn't make up her mind.

Le sabbie mobili si stavano muovendo sotto di lui.

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living one had to accept the risks.

Human beings were blind, crazy creatures, he thought, forever walking the tightrope of the present condemned to ever changing shifts and expedients to maintain the balance of existence, not knowing even as far ahead as tomorrow what the actions of today would bring. How could one plan a year ahead, how influence the imponderables?