Quotes About Uncertainty

But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

What's happened to the world? she was thinking. Everything has turned terrible...and the bits that aren't terrible have gone mad. I don't understand anything anymore.

All right," said Eden. "After all, we've got to hide somewhere. And even if they move on a bit faster than we can, they'll still leave signs, won't they? "Yes, they'll drip blood and leave echoes of people laughing," said Timon in a dark voice. Eden looked at him apprehensively. But then Timon laughed himself. "Joking! Joking! Only joking!" he cried, and Eden nodded, echoing his laughter rather uncertainly.

Gli amori nuovi sono pieni di paure, Angela, non hanno un posto nel mondo e non hanno capolinea.

È inutile indagare le occasioni mancate. Non sai mai se ti sei salvato dalla morte, o ti sei perso la vera vita.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?

Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.

Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever

Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security.

It's a funny old world.

Nothing at all, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I'd hate to get used to something I'm not ready for.

You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died. -Raistlin Majere

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

What then?" But she put the thought from her mind. When the war was over, everything would be settled, somewhow. If Ashley loved her, he simply couldn't go on living with Melanie.

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go...

We all of us go about, she meant to tell him but was too occupied, wanting to be wanted but unsure why anybody should bother.

Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think?

And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too, where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.

Always your mind goes to the worst, Mam, and the worst very seldom happens.