Quotes About Uncertainty

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

What does it feel like?" he asked. "What does what feel like?" Peter thought for a moment. "Being at the top." Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. "Like if you take one wrong step," she said, "you're going to fall.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

Does fate ever play by the rules?

Nobody is guaranteed tomorrow—I realize that viscerally now—but that doesn't keep us from feeling cheated when it's yanked away.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

In the absence of knowledge, the mind is an amazing Tilt-A-Whirl of worst-case scenarios.

Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again

And naturally she wanted to believe she would have been a hero, when push came to shove. But you never knew what path you'd take until you got to that crossroads.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

That was how I learned that the world changes between heartbeats; that life is never an absolute, but always a wager.

So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

Every unknown road leads to destinations that could turn your life around.

My life a crazy game that I just cannot lose.

Life is crazy and full of surprises.

Life is crazy...unexpected things happen everyday.

All my life I was afraid that I would never find LOVE.... And now that I've Found it, I'm afraid that I will lose it.