Quotes About Uncertainty

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

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The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

After spending my life thinking I was an architect, I was a sailor adrift at sea.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

Sometimes, you have to ride the wave, Kit-Cat, and see what beach it lands on. Could be warm and sunny there.

we rush madly forward toward we know not what and call ourselves "progressive". It

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I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.

Caleb shook his head. "No, they

Ninguém sabe o que vai acontecer amanhã ou na semana que vem. Não importa quanto sua vida seja segura e estabelecida, tudo pode mudar num piscar de olhos.

A vida não vem com garantias.

It was like sitting in a silent room waiting for someone very important someone for whom you have been waiting a long while and then suddenly hearing a knock on the door. For just a minute you hesitate wondering who it might be and what does he want and why did he come. For just a second you're scared because although you've waited for years you really never expected the knock.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

The news is a never-ending horror movie and nobody knows how it's going to end