Quotes About Uncertainty

the closest I can come to describing what the theater is like. A barbaric free-for-all in which should you ever win, you are for sure going to fall flat on your face or your ass.9

I doubt it with a silent B.

Lhe doía esse simples ensinamento: tudo é terminável, até o futuro.

Na vida só a morte é exacta. O resto balança nas duas margens da dúvida.

Quem está a balançar: sou eu, é a cadeira ou é o mundo?

A vida é um por enquanto que há-de vir.

Quem parte treme, quem regressa teme.

Sofro, afinal, a doença da poesia: sonho lugares em que nunca estive, acredito só no que não se pode provar.

Mi pecado se volvía más grave debido a los tiempos de crisis en que vivíamos. Cuantas más certezas nos robaba la guerra, más carecíamos de la seguridad de un pasado hecho de orden y obediencia.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

High over head they hoisted and fixed a gold signum; gave him to the flood, let the seas take him, with sour hearts and mourning mood. Men under heaven's shifting skies, though skilled in counsel, cannot say surely who unshipped that cargo.

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

We don't 'see' odds – how likely the thing is – we 'see' consequences. That's what people would mean if they were to say 'picture the risk'. They mean picture the worst that can happen.

Anything that liberates is not without risk.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

I don't know how else to describe it. I am afraid to say: 'I believe in the dream per se.' Just as it is, just as it was, just as when I am empty of night when I haven't dreamt.

Teams take serious chances when they try to make large changes without tests. It is like doing aerial gymnastics without a net.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

A bit early to put all the chips in the fryer just yet. Why don't you just wait and see? Remember: There's a reason the Fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.