Quotes About Uncertainty

Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since, Doug said. When I bolted, Sean and Evan were trying to boost Caleb up onto the roof so he could look through the skylight and make sure the kid wasn't dead or something.

A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. Mrs.

That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.

When I was a girl in Blundermeecen we wondered always if we would see each other again. Each day was uncertain. So, to say good-bye to someone was uncertain, too. Would you see them again? Who could say? Blundermeecen was a place of dark secrets, unmarked graves, terrible curses. Trolls were everywhere! So we said good-bye to each other the best way we could. We said: I promise to always turn back toward you.

you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.

I don't know, Louisiana. I can't see into the future. I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.

Sometimes there are no reasons. Often, most of the time, there are no reasons. The world cannot be explained.

It is very dangerous for you to be who you are, said Brother Edik. and so you must pretend to be someone you are not. But how can I pretend to be someone I am not when I don't know who I am?

You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

We do not know what will become. What will become is what becomes, and that is all we know.

I once had a teacher called Mrs McGregor who said that the world was turning very slowly on its axis. It is moving infinitesimally, said Mrs McGregor. Infinitesimally. [...] But here is the thing: it did not feel to me like the earth was moving infinitesimally. It felt like it was hurtling and jerking its way through a lonely darkness. To my way of thinking, you never knew when the earth was going to lurch and go somewhere entirely unexpected. There was nothing infinitesimal about it.

The world was so dark! I don't know that I had ever before encountered such darkness.

he went down the stairs, "no choice, no choice

How long are you supposed to wait? That was another question that Raymie wished she had asked Mrs. Borkowski. How long should you wait, and when should you stop waiting?

What you giving me them shifty-eyed looks for?

I am trapped, and for once in my life I see no path through these Rings. Four

To withhold trust until there is no doubt is not trust.

Aren't we all just flies crawling across the giant tablecloth of fate?

Cross that bridge when you come to it

But, truthfully, I lacked the courage to jump.' 'Perhaps it takes more courage not to,' Sandrine said

Never make financial decisions based on what you assume you'll be earning in the future.

Quoique dise la vieille espérance. Forçons les portes du doute

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.