Quotes About Uncertainty

Doing battle with the forces of… I was going to say evil, but I'm increasingly unsure exactly where everyone around me falls on the Jedi-Sith Index.

There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.

We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there.

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

The only thing certain in life is change.

Come on, I said to Karrin. Head for the other boat. Should we? she asked. That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy.

All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you expected.

That isn't going to happen," he told her. "It's going to be all right" "Fool," Kitai scoffed gently. "You do not know that." "Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them." "That is completely irrational." "Yes," Tavi agreed. "And true.

This whole thing, I said is going to come down to guessing who isn't what they look like. Who is? Karrin asked, her hands moving surely over the weapon. Ever.

Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life.

Murphy," I hissed. "Are you absolutely sure about this hair? That it belongs to Kravos?" If it didn't, the doll wouldn't do diddly to the sorcerer, unless I managed to throw it into his eye. "We're reasonably sure," she whispered, "yes." "Reasonably sure. Great." But I knelt down, and marked out the circle around me, then another around the Ken doll, and wrought my spell.

Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't.

Nothing is truly safe in this world—and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy in the meantime.

That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you.

I had time to think, though I wasn't sure I wanted to.

Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore.

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

Wizard knows what he is talking about." "No, I really don't," I said. "That's the problem." "But you know that you do not know," Michael said. "Which is wise.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

But until I have a better idea, it's smarter to keep reminding myself that I don't know, rather than assuming that I do know, and then translating anything I learn to fit my preconceptions