Quotes About Uncertainty

how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.

You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.

Better than never having loved at all. The real moral of the story is that you should take love when and where you can find it because none of us know how long we have left.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Do I often feel conflicted or ambivalent regarding my relationship with this person?

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

Maybe in time, once your feelings for Dee deepen—" "That's my problem, Houston. I think I've fallen in love with her and I've got no earthly idea how to make her love me." -Dallas and Houston

What had seemed so simple then seemed so complicated now. Doors had closed and opportunities had opened. She felt lost, at a crossroads, not knowing which path to take.

Sighing, she looked out at the fog. It was like life, preventing her from seeing what was beyond reach. She wasn't unhappy. She simply felt that something important was missing from her life

fortune was a fickle mistress.

But life was precarious and opportunities were never guaranteed.

He didn't know how one's flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn't understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.

Olivia dared not ask, but she had to know. It seemed unlikely her husband could have made a worse choice than Jack Dodger, but if he was her husband's first who would serve as his second? The devil himself? "Who is appointed as my son's guardian in that will?

Expectations were never in short supply. "Do you want to know?" he asked. "I suppose it depends on the answer." "Which answer would you prefer?" "I'm not really sure. Both leave a lot to be desired.

My crystal ball is fuzzy

I'm still not sure I didn't die

I wonder how many people look at their own lives as having an arc, and live their lives accordingly, given the built-in certainty of cancellation. We're all going to get canceled someday. We just don't know how many seasons we'll be around for.

We can't predict what type of sustaining graces God will provide for us. And we can't expect that the kind of sustaining grace someone else receives will be the same kind of care we will receive. We can only trust that the provision will come.

On sacrifie plus aisément, l'avenir incertain que le souvenir assuré. L'homme redoute le risque.

I am alone. I can see nothing at all. For ten minutes, I am lost.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.