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Quotes About Uncertainty

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.
~ Christopher Moore
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
~ David Hyde Pierce
One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.
~ Rumi
Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
~ Billy Joel
I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared
~ Leila Aboulela
We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.
~ Nicole Krauss
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
~ Robert Browning
Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
~ Anita Brookner
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.
~ Mitt Romney
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
~ Shia LaBeouf
God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.
~ Joyce Meyer
The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.
~ Jake Abel
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
~ F. S Flint
For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
~ Freeman Dyson
Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.
~ Christopher Moore
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
~ Rachel Cusk
endless hope, endless disappointment.
~ Cassandra Clare
It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.
~ William Kent Krueger