Quotes About Uncertainty

Predictability and great design are not friends.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

No doubt, the biggest challenge before you is to protect yourself from sadness, because happiness belongs to the theory of uncertainty.

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.