Quotes About Uncertainty

These are dangerous times and dangerous people. We need all the help we can get.

It was messy. Unruly. Risky. Scary. So much could go wrong. Failure was always close at hand. But so was brilliance.

How close they all were, without knowing it, to disaster. All the time.

Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But

They knew who was on their side. When did it get so difficult to tell? Gamache wondered.

Anything could happen to anyone, at any moment. What made a place safe were the people. The caring. The kindness. The helping. Sometimes the mourning. And often the forgiveness.

How far away the shore must seem when you're on thin ice.

Gracie might, or might not, be a dog. The smart money was now on guinea pig, with hedgehog a close second.

This doesn't feel right, patron.

Anything different, anything you don't understand, you immediately believe is threatening.

I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know. He'd

I mean some can predict the future because they create it," said Rosenblatt. "Oh, not the good things. We can't make someone love us, or even like us. But we can make someone hate us. We can't guarantee we'll be hired for a job, but we can make sure we're fired." He put down his apple cider and stared at Gamache. "We can't be sure we'll win a war, but we can lose one.

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Even Google Maps doesn't have it," said Huifen. "And the GPS thinks we parked in the middle of the forest." "The middle of nowhere," said Jacques. "It's still recalculating," said Nathaniel. "She seemed quite concerned for us.

It was like being in an exciting movie, except I didn't know whether it was a romance or a comedy.

Ik lag op mijn arm tot er geen gevoel meer in zat en toen tilde ik hem op (met mijn nietgevoelloze arm) en legde hem op mijn borsten. Ik wilde weten hoe het voelde om een vreemde hand op je borsten te hebben. Het was wel aangenaam, maar wat weet ik er nou van? Ik zit vol rare verlangens om helder te kunnen denken. Moet ik mijn beha aan naar het feest?

Who knows what goes on in my mind? I will be the last to know. Even

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

Something you always look for, but never know when it's going to happen

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.