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Quotes About Uncertainty

In London, "I know the answer" was never as exciting as "I'm not sure but I may have found a way.
~ Unknown
Remember: the past was left behind, the present is a choice and the future is never certain.
~ Unknown
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Las pocas veces que he sido feliz he tenido profundo miedo ¿cómo iba a pagar la factura? Solo los insensatos —o los no nacidos— son felices sin temor.
~ Unknown
My grandmother say you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. A hard head makes a soft behind. Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get.
~ Cupcake Brown
You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.
~ Cupcake Brown
You've got to learn to trust Him, Cup. You're not always going to be able to see the big picture.
~ Cupcake Brown
Risk is your friend. Don't be afraid of it. Understand it. Dance with it.
~ Unknown
No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
~ Curtis Joseph
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Nothing was a sure thing; every choice was just an educated guess, or a leap into a mysterious abyss. People might not change but their incentives could. So
~ Unknown
They'd fallen into their old ways, accusatory and evasive, which was reassuring in a perverted way. Leo understood the nasty pull of the regrettable familiar, how the old grooves could be so much more satisfying than the looming unknown. It's addicts stayed addicts.
~ Unknown
Her heartbeat began to pound faster. Thirteen's eyes were sweeping over her body. A slow, deliberate glance. "Can he—can he see through the mirror?" His gaze felt like a hot touch on her skin. "Of course not" was Dr. Wyatt's instant response. The doc sounded annoyed with her. Her shoulders relaxed. Subject Thirteen smiled. Damn.
~ Unknown
Why me?" Claire asked him. "Fuck if I know." She blinked. Well, that wasn't exactly some romantic confession.
~ Unknown
You're the one who is scared. Scared that if you're not careful, you'll actually let down that guard of yours, and maybe then it won't just be about the best sex of our lives. Maybe it will be about something more. But I guess we won't ever find out, will we?
~ Unknown
disappearance, Kyle knew he had
~ Unknown
No matter how omnipotent we think we are, we have damn little power to control our destinies.
~ Unknown
People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.
~ Cynthia Lord
It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma
~ Cynthia Lord
Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
~ Cynthia Lord
Because she fears the past she distrusts the future — it, too, will turn into the past.
~ Cynthia Ozick
The Quantum Age takes us far beyond the Information Age to a way of living in which we delight in uncertainty, thrive in entanglement, and flourish with an awareness of many possibilities.
~ Unknown
I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.
~ Cynthia Voigt