Quotes About Uncertainty

Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.

Destiny and history are untidy.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.