Quotes About Uncertainty

I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.

Nobody knows how long the arrests wil go on and who else will be taken. He feels even he does not know, and he is in charge of it.

Do you think this plague will be over by the time I return? They say these visitations are all from God, but I can't pretend to know his purposes.

Did I?' Norfolk looks alarmed. 'It's come to that?

We say, how did it happen? We ask ourselves." The duke sniffs. "We ask ourselves, but by the steaming blood of Christ we have no bloody answer." The steaming blood of Christ. It's an oath worthy of Thomas Howard, the senior duke.

distrusted the permanent snare for his temporary opinions.

Why does the future feel so much like the past, the uncanny clammy touch of it, the rustle of bridal sheet or shroud, the crackle of fire in a shuttered room? Like breath misting glass, like the nightingale's trace on the air, like a wreath of incense, like vapour, like water, like scampering feet and laughter in the dark.

You start out, you start talking, you don't even know what you're going to say. You don't even know your way to the end of the sentence. You don't know anything. Then suddenly you do know you have to walk blind and you walk slap into the truth.

He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who know the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.

I am as I am and so will I be But how that I am, none knoweth truly Be it evil, be it well, be I bound, be I free, I am as I am and so will I be … … But how that is I leave to you. Judge as ye list, false or true Ye know no more than afore ye knew Yet I am as I am, whatever ensue.

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of Hamlet.

In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.

But there's no guarantee that the world will change the way you want it to. I think that's the danger of changing the past that the minister was talking about.

Too much light would mean danger, but if it were too dark, I would not be able to make sure that the person I was meeting was really Major Taniguchi.

I stood quite still, waiting for what was to follow. I felt sure Major Taniguchi would come up to me and whisper, "That was so much talk. I will tell you your real orders later." After all, Suzuki was present, and the major could not talk to me confidentially in front of him.

There comes a time when we can no longer tell the invaders from the invaded. That is what we call "War.

Where did it get hit? I can't tell," she said.

No one can predict the future, so it's pointless to fear the unknown.

There's nothing worse than not knowing how the one you love feels about you. Of course, in a way, it's not knowing that makes love so exciting...

He had given me something priceless: namely, his confidence. I am grateful I was forced to make my own way. His disappearance did put me in need and make my future uncertain, but it turns out need and uncertainty can be excellent teachers.

What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?

Sejak bertemu dengannya, aku tidak pernah merasa tenang... Dia telah membuatku berayun di antara harapan dan ketakutan...

I've wanted this and feared it, and now that it's happening, I don't know how I will ever want anything else.