Quotes About Uncertainty

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

Spring is like a perhaps hand

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

The nights are always meaningless without hopes for tomorrow.

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.