Quotes About Uncertainty

All we can do is make the best decision possible in that moment. Then move on. Because we can't know how a different choice would play out, it makes no sense to beat ourselves up over what looks like a bad choice in retrospect.

Hope is the thing that can't be reigned in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It's a blessing and a curse.

We're all dangerous in our own way, I guess.

We write that bad ending before we even get there." "Isn't that what makes us human? The ability to look at the present and predict what's likely to happen?" "But we're really not all that good at it, are we?

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't approve of all this tampering with Weirstones," Millie said. "Swapping them from person to person, creating designer Weir, and all that. You never know what you're going to get. Though I must say, that Jack Swift is a very well-endowed young man. I wonder, though, if he'll be able to reproduce.

Ask them. But you're not a soldier, I'm not sure what you are, but you're not that.

Why me?" Han said. "Why not Dancer? He's not likely to go mad on you." Just then he was rather taken with the notion of going mad, of breaking things. It seemed like a good out.

No hay nadie más peligroso que aquel a quien las esperanzas se le han convertido en desesperación.

Bagaimana aku bisa mengetahui apa yang akan terjadi terhadap diriku? Siapa yang dapat menceritakan bagaimana kehidupanku di masa depan? Itulah sebabnya aku selalu menolak hal ini, karena aku yakin bahwa buruk-baiknya kehidupan seseorang hanya dapat dinilai setelah dia mati.

I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.

The goods are odd but the odds are good.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

Ethan didn't have a month in mind. While it shocked the hell out of him, one look and he'd been thinking forever. And after one night with Darcy Prescott in his bed, he wasn't sure forever would be enough.

Keep the faith. And remember, you never know for sure what's around a corner . . . until you take the turn.

You never know what you're going to get with a pinball game," John said. "It's a lot like life. You can't control it, so you have to just roll with it and do the best you can. And if you do well enough, sometimes you get a bonus play.

He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.

It would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

He then fell into the state of apprehension and despondency usual to writers as they wait for a verdict on their work.