Quotes About Uncertainty

After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End

The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all.

When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case.

There are times when the midsummer sun strikes cold, and when the leaping flames of a hearthfire give no heat. Times when the chill within us comes not from fears we know, but from fears unknown-and forever unknowable.

there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place

She stepped back, his hand left suspended in the gap between them, and demanded, "Did you get Lily pregnant?

really be suspicious.

They're afraid of being afraid. Losing control of a world they never had controlled in the first place.

rocky terrain is unavoidable and may even be the path to something wonderful. "We can count on chaos,

By stabilizing things you defeat the point of the exercise. Stay with the uncertainty, please. Really, it's all about the struggle.

Certainty is the enemy of knowledge.

I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.

It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

Life is full of adventures we'd never take if we knew how they were going to turn out before we did them. But

Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts I wish the walls were still there to protect me. It feels like growing up, as if the safety of the childhood has been stripped away, and I've woken up on the edge of something dangerous. The walls are gone and I can do as I please. It's a freedom I'm not so sure I'm ready for.

La nuit avance ainsi, dans l'hécatombe des héroïsmes et le hasard des survivances.

Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.

Might-have-beens are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.

There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

When I say I know something, I'm right 95% of the time; when I say I DON'T know something, I'm right 100% of the time!

And he is not so sure now if his mother was right when she praised the man who made a field his bride.