Quotes About Uncertainty

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn't frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home.