Quotes About Uncertainty

They weren't exactly here and now. They were busy turning to some future, but what is the future when you are always feeding it money? Doesn't it get tiring to give so much away to a world that you'll never get to touch and see?

How do we even talk about the future when there's less and less of it every minute?

We sit restless, on a fickle edge always looking for something new yet wary of anything different.

Even the straightest path has two directions.

How far was that? On March 1 he told us the chest x-ray looked clear, except for a shadow that was probably the pulmonary artery, but he was playing safe and ordering a CAT scan to make sure it wasn't a lymph node. Roger and I had lunch that day at the hospital cafeteria, in the prison-yard court on plastic chairs under a lowering sky. Roger said how glad he

I must've gone out for dinner with Al and Bernice, and I must've been full of reassurance and interstitial data. All the blood work was normal so far, but I don't recall if an actual T-cell test was taken, or if we knew the results before the verdict. The T cells are a subset of the white blood count. Infection with the

Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.

There are chickens, there are eggs, there are deaf girls singing karaoke. Nothing makes sense anymore.

Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers, especially when you do not know what the answers are. I didn't give a shit either way.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a jar of jalapeños: You never know what's going to burn your ass.

Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one's whole life in irreversible conflagration.

Riven eyed him sidelong. "Cale, I think … that he is waiting, too. Like the shadowwalkers." "For what?" Cale started to say, but could not find his voice at first. "For what?" "For you to let him go." Riven gestured at Jak.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

I contemplate my last moments and wait for the explanation I know will not be offered.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

Cavett. "What makes you stuck?" Simon. "Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (190)