Quotes About Uncertainty

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose...

Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.

The cosmos offers no absolute confirmations

scrabble of toenails on the tile floor.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

We are told to believe in ourselves," he said. "But I'm not sure that's what we are meant to do.

You know, the future's a huge, gigantic place. I have no idea what's going on out there, I'm just going to walk into it and see what happens.

And yet she hadn't the air of a woman whose life had been touched by uncertainty or suffering. Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance.

But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was all silly invention on her part. Yet she could not. Not quite.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I have retired, but if there is anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful." "Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. Oh, who can tell what you may meet Round the next corner and in the next street! Could life be anything but sweet When all is hazardous and new? Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. That

there really is no such thing as 'the future', singular. There are only multiple, unforeseeable futures, which will never lose their capacity to take us by surprise.

Most of the time you don't estimate the good or the bad you do and you have to operate on a small and labouring engine of hope with a blind windscreen and pray you're going in a direction

Dad moved in with the baffled deepsea shyness of a character just arriving in a story already underway.

To have hope you have to have faith. That's the crazy bit. You have to believe things could get better. You have no idea how exactly, but somehow. It's a blindness thing, faith.

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

Everything is working out, he keeps saying. For the first time, I'm not so sure. I think back to my life sober - working, getting up early to go on bike rides and shit, going to movies. I haven't looked at a newspaper in over two weeks. There could be a new war going on and I'd have no idea. But this is the life I want to live, right? I mean, I'm happier.

Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do...I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.