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Quotes About Uncertainty

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
As an audience member myself, I love to be in a position where I'm trying to figure out what I am supposed to feel or if what I'm feeling is appropriate or not.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
When you come from where I come from, you're trying to get approval for something - you don't know what.
~ Ed O'Neill
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.
~ Jan Koum
We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.
~ Maya Wiley
I didn't know much at all about YG before I arrived there the first day. It felt like something far removed from me. I never thought I'd actually be doing it for real.
~ Jisoo
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
~ Renzo Piano
I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'
~ King Krule
The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
~ John Oates
Monsieur Octave de Camps, he said, having wasted his means on a certain Madame Firmiani, was now reduced to teaching mathematics for a living, while awaiting his uncle's death, not daring to let him know of his dissipations.
~ Honore de Balzac
Could the Comte de Vandenesse have seen himself, three years later, the brother-in-law of a Sieur Ferdinand DU Tillet, so-called, he might not have married his wife; but what man of rank in 1828 foresaw the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was destined to produce in the political condition, the fortunes, and the customs of France?
~ Honore de Balzac
Il avait vu les trois grandes expressions de la société : l'obéissance, la Lutte et la Révolte; la Famille, le Monde et Vautrin. Et il n'osait prendre parti. L'Obéissance était ennuyeuse, la Révolte impossible, et la Lutte incertaine. Sa
~ Honore de Balzac
Acaba bugün nas?l kar??layacak?" diye kendi kendime sorarken, o s?ralarda daralmas? kadar aç?lmas? da kolay ruhumun neler çekti?ini anlatamam... Sürekli olarak korku içinde ya?amakt? bu.
~ Honore de Balzac
Of course I know," said Madame Massin, "that the Abbe Chaperon is an honest man; but he is capable of anything for the sake of his poor. He must have mined and undermined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did nothing, and here he is perverted! A man who never believed in anything, and had principles of his own! Well! we're done for. My husband is absolutely beside himself.
~ Honore de Balzac
The man is mad!" exclaimed Bianchon. "You think so, do you?" said his uncle. "If you listen to only one bell, you hear only one sound.
~ Honore de Balzac
We live in an age, madame, when nothing is sure," he said. "Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future. You know my attachment to the cause of legitimacy. Suppose some catastrophe; would you not be glad to have a friend in the conquering party?" "Undoubtedly," she said, smiling.
~ Honore de Balzac
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
~ Honore de Balzac
Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In
~ Hope Edelman
He could not stand people saying, "Who knows what we shall be doing this time next year?" and he loathed such expressions as "for the last time," "never again"..
~ Unknown
And then the disquieting thought would come to him that perhaps after all epitaphs are not altogether to be trusted.
~ Unknown
And he would gaze in terror at his furniture, his walls, his pictures - what strange scene might they one day witness, what awful experience might he one day have in their presence?
~ Unknown
We have the misfortune of living in a country that marches with the unknown; and that is apt to make the fancy sick. Though we laugh at old songs and old yarns, nevertheless, they are the yarn with which we weave our picture of the world.
~ Unknown
Reality was beginning to become very shadowy and menacing.
~ Unknown
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
~ Horace