Quotes About Uncertainty

Gotta tell you, Murph," I sighed back. "I got a bad feeling about this." "Speak for yourself," Murphy said. "I just gave my last grenade to a Valkyrie and ordered her to blow up a kraken. I'm having a ball.

a door standing open that shouldn't be; a shadow on the floor with no source to cast it; a cat purring and rubbing up against a favorite person—who isn't there.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here.

I shuddered and shoved the feeling away. No matter how strong the vision, how powerful the image gained with the Sight, the future was always mutable, always something that could be changed. No one had to die tonight. It didn't have to come to that, not for them and not for me.

The damnedest thing was that there wasn't much I could do about it. Not because I was chained up, held at gunpoint, and probably going to die—though I had to admit, that might make things somewhat difficult

There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

Oh, crap. You're saying that it's going to kill me, too." "Yes, that is exactly what I'm freaking saying, you tool." "Um," Thomas said, "I'm against that.

It's a confusing sort of thing. he said. What is? Life.

She staggered forward screaming and sobbing, bearing the torch aloft and certain that death was there for her, breathing softly, black wings rustling like those of the crows that waited, waited somewhere in the predawn darkness to sweep down on the eyes of the dead.

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

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

This is scary." "And we're doing it anyway," I said. "That makes us brave, right?" "If we get away with it," I said. "If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

The last thing the twenty-first century wants to admit is that it might not know everything.

I hate it when a plan falls apart.

My God, these guys don't even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.

Although it felt much longer, within a few seconds the pilot came over the loudspeaker. He spoke in German and Roxanne couldn't discern much from the tone of his voice. Then she heard the passengers who could understand him audibly gasp. This made her even more frightened. Finally, in somewhat broken English, the pilot announced that airspace over the United States was closed and he had been ordered to land in Gander, Newfoundland. He offered no further explanation.

Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

The present passes too quickly to notice and I've never had a grip on the future, even as an idea.

life is a kind of Labyrinth, with all its twists and turns, its straight paths and its occasional dead ends.

Was it even a Cutlass? He could tell trucks from cars and sedans from compacts, but beyond that he was guessing.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

Drugs are a bet with your mind." "It's like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.