Quotes About Uncertainty

Once again, everything had changed on them. Perhaps it was all this changing that made her sad.

Nothing of the smallest interest was going to happen today, at all events, and he could not for the life of him say why he had come there himself, except that, having finished the lecture on torts, he was at a loose end that morning, and that sitting with his neighbours in the village hall made a change from pottering round the garden at home.

But there is nothing in me, just fear, nothing but the running of dark waves.

In 1942 in Warsaw, we were living without hope, or rather on a hope we knew to be a delusion.

He] Attacks the past, but fears that, having destroyed it, He will have nothing on which to lay his head.

I wanted to be a judge but those whom I called "they" have changed into myself. I was getting rid of my faith so not to be better than me and women who are certain only of their unknowing. And on the roads of my terrestrial homeland turning round with the music of the spheres I thought that all I could do would be done better one day.

Dr. Forrester got lost in the snow and staggered into the hall and collapsed on the floor. If the door had been locked he would probably have died. So ever since then Uncle Jock and Aunt Mamie have never allowed the door to be locked.

Life was like that, thought Liz. You drifted on for years and years—then, suddenly, everything happened at once and all the things that had seemed so stable dissolved and disintegrated before your eyes…and life was new.

According to this book I have been sowing the seeds of complexes and cultivating inhibitions in Bryan and Betty ever since they were a few months old. Feel much worried about this, but decide that it is too late now to do anything, and that Bryan and Betty must just take their chance.

Perhaps your father wouldn't like it?" suggested Patty doubtfully. "Uncle James didn't like it much. I mean Hugo had to be very tactful about it. He couldn't really get on with his plans until Uncle James died. He died quite suddenly." (Arsenic, thought Will—but he still remained silent.)

At the end of a year the matter would be reconsidered. Mr. Whitney insisted on the year's probation—Ernest might want to marry, or he, himself, might die; anything might happen in a year— "Good," said Ernest at last, stretching his arms, "I'm free." "You are bound," thought Mr. Whitney but he was too wise to say so.

Prayers are not always answered, " Malcolm replied. "Sometimes it's better for us that they're not answered; sometimes they're answered differently from what we expect.

Penney had felt just a little bit frightened about the job she had taken on, but she had prayed that she might be guided and the prayer had been answered by an inflowing of confidence, firm and sure and peaceful. Prayers are not always answered, as Penney well knew, but this one had been answered in no uncertain manner. It was going to be all right.

Grace says she likes thinking about the future and making plans—even if the plans don't come off—and perhaps if Jack's old aunt dies in time they will be able to manage it all right. The old aunt is "over ninety and quite queer", so Grace does not feel that it is wrong to envisage her end.

I was safe. Uncomfortable as hell, but safe.-Bobby, RR

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.

You never know from week to week how one team is going to attack you versus another team.

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.