Quotes About Uncertainty

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Nick turned out to be a shy boy, uncertain in groups and in new situations, but also very brave, determined to overcome his fear." - Will, as a parent describing his son

I don't know why I'm always screwing up at everything, even when I try so hard, all the time, not to. I'd do better if I could, I really would. But I don't know how. There are a lot of things I don't know.

Like I might be about to do something really, really stupid. And knowing I'm going to do it isn't going to stop it from happening.

I'm not sure, any more, I'm not sure about anything. But I'd happily try it. Try anything really, just to get back to myself.

A hug is not always the right answer, you know. But as she felt his arms around her, his warm breath against the crown of her head, she thought that it might not be an answer, but it was certainly better than yet another question.

That knife edge of time that could end with a laugh and a hug or a broken finger ir a Chinese burn.

Things that felt like a good idea at ten o'clock would seem like the worst idea in the world by ten thirty. Someone once said to her that the key to a happy life was making good decisions. But making good decisions was beyond her because she could always see an infinity of outcomes and all of them seemed good for at least a moment.

There was nothing more worrying than being told there was nothing to worry about when you hadn't been worrying in the first place.

tell you what – I just lost the plot – totally. I

She tries to claw back the stolen half-hour, but her adrenaline is pumping again; her husband went somewhere last night and has woken up in his friend's flat and doesn't know what happened in between. Her husband, who has a career and a mortgage and two children to think about. Her husband, who is forty-five.

And now, here, on this Chicago street, Marco discovers that his life is about to change yet again and it feels once more like a thing that teeters helplessly on a tightrope over a crevasse.

He's not sure. Just weird addresses, kind of storage units in back streets in Algeria, storage units in industrial estates in Belfast. Jonno did Google Map Street View

No more Dane," he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. "I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him." "It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

It's all right," the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. "My grandmother always told me 'Never try to turn back on a new road—you don't know what adventures await you.

But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.

He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. "Amanda, do you trust me?" "Of course not," she said. "I don't know the first thing about you." Laughter rustled from his chest. "Sensible woman.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn't done... the paths you hadn't taken, the things you hadn't experienced.

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

It was a bad habit of hers … looking for safety in places where there wasn't any.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.