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Quotes About Uncertainty

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
~ Horatio Nelson
Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
~ Nicky Hilton
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
~ Bill Vaughan
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.
~ Gerhard Richter
Chance is a second master.
~ Pliny the Elder
Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
~ Ted Turner
Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared
~ Unknown
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have no sense of well-being. There's no chance the well will run dry.
~ Larry David
There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
~ Lance Armstrong
So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.
~ Keri Hulme
He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
~ Paul Auster
I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.
~ Pete Seeger
What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.
~ Anthony Liccione
If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.
~ Unknown
We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.
~ Marty Rubin
Will I see you again?"I turned to him and I shrugged. "If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will.
~ Unknown
There's no such thing as probability, " she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script