Quotes About Uncertainty

like a pall. One wonders how Wesley dared to go there.

Their love was not in question. What was in question was what they would make of it.

But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.

life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get

All my own life, I ain't understood shit about what was goin on. A thing jus happen, then somethin else happen, then somethin else, an so on, an haf the time nothin makin any sense.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope.

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind.

Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or to beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up!

can best be described as one of these orators who, before they get up, do not know what they are going to say, when they are speaking do not know what they are saying, and when they have sat down, do not know what they have said

What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by. 1940, 10 AUGUST, CHEQUERS.

There is great danger in trying to have things both ways.

Although general staffs present the results of their labours in simple and precise assertions, these are no sure foundations upon which to make intricate plans depending upon a few days or a few divisions one way or another.

you never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice! Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The veils of the future are lifted one by one, and mortals must act from day to day.

We live in a world of 'ifs.' 'What happened,' is singular; 'what might have happened,' legion.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know....That is why I value that little phrase I don't know so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include spaces within us as well as the outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended...Poets, if they're genuine, must always keep repeating I don't know.

Here I am, Cassandra. And this is my city under ashes. And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons. And this is my head full of doubts.

È vero, taccio - ma taccio solo per timore che il mio canto in futuro mi dia dolore, che verrà giorno e d'un tratto smentirà le parole, resteranno ritmi e rime, se ne andrà l'amore, e sarà inafferrabile come l'ombra di un ramo.