Quotes About Uncertainty

Il est toujours fort difficile de dire à quel moment une crainte s'est transformée en certitude et quelle mince donnée supplémentaire a changé la face des choses. On se sentait encore soutenu par un petit souffle d'espérance, dont on ne s'avouait pas le progressif affaiblissement. Et puis, passé un certain cap, on s'aperçoit qu'il n'est plus là et que l'on s'en doutait depuis un bon moment.

Gingerly, Daniel reached toward the infant. "What if she doesn't like me?" "She'll spit acid in your eye and you'll die a horrible death," Kara joked.

One after the other, they were buried under that sky and neither they nor I knew if it was the one under which we'd been born.

Unofficially the cops are saying it's a suicide.

Buying a house is right up there with the holy trinity of death, divorce, and public speaking.

She guessed he was past a turning point, early thirties, where he imagined he would know something with certainty, and he looked angry that his life was not unfolding in a way befitting him.

Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.

So why was he feeling like this? Why was he feeling like some promise the universe made had been broken?

But we do not know yet who we are fighting and what we are fighting for.

Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over.

Here she was, in all of her deep unknowing knowing that this was the place, this was the time to keep me here by letting me know how easy it would have been to stay fifteen. That the people I loved almost as much as I loved my own father would have determined me optional. Two words spoken early enough, I'm pregnant

she said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed.

When we have no trust, the vacant space that is left becomes filled with fear.

We speak of it like it is always possible, but we never truly expect it.

What I learned at the end of my first week back at work after the holiday break was how rough at least some of that road would be. Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. He brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cookie in my pocket and I showed it to Keith. It said, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.

Écrire sans point d'ancrage, sans point de mire, risque absolu, espace ouvert… précipice de la langue, laconisme de funambule»

The computer is an enigma. Not in its making or its usage, but because man appears incapable of foreseeing anything about the computer's influence on society and humanity. We have most likely never dealt with such an ambiguous apparatus, an instrument that seems to contain the best and the worst, and, above all, a device whose true potentials we are unable to scrutinize.

La prévoyance commence lorsque nous acceptons que nous sommes maintenant arrivés à créés une civilisation du risque.