Quotes About Uncertainty

Hildy has resigned herself to this, that life is a series of sudden disappearences, leavetakings without the proper good-byes. Someday she too might vanish. Some days she looks forward to learning this trick.

Happiness! Misery! If you were one, bet on it the other was on the way.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

No one ever built a fort because the world was safe.

We're reminders that people shouldn't feel too smug. That what you think you own, you don't. That life can change just like that." Fadwa snapped her fingers.

Once a guy had pulled a gun on him—there was no way to understand that, but, on the other hand, you knew exactly what was going on. With the zombies, who knew?

I feel like I'm heading full speed in the wrong direction.

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they decide not to go

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

Le había hecho tan feliz que empezó a temer que no fuese a durar.

There will always be crashes. They are necessary to remind good and bad investors that risk is real.

pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

Is it experimental?" "All medicine is experimental. All therapies work on some patients but not on others. You must listen to what I tell you: medicine offers no guarantees.

We'll see, Grigori thought as he drifted off to sleep. Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.

He put on his coat and hat. Then he returned to the kitchen. He kissed his mother and embraced his father. "What's this for?" said his father. "You're only going to work." "It's just in case we never meet again," Volodya said. Then he went out.

Some people appealed to the Virgin and the saints when someone was sick, but that only made Caris more uncertain and frightened, for there was no way to know if the spirits would help, or even whether they had heard. Mother Cecelia was not as powerful as the saints, the ten-year-old Caris had known; but all the same her assured, practical presence had given Caris both hope and resignation in a combination that brought peace to her soul.

How glibly he and Maud had said, back in August 1914, that they would be reunited by Christmas! It was now more than two years since he had looked at her lovely face. And it was probably going to take Germany another two years to win the war.

It was a sudden reminder that life was unpredictable.

Ya no estaba seguro de que fuera su hogar.

thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.

preocupante posibilidad de que ese día no consiguiera

sure their gamble

Me alegra prever los problemas, porque así soy capaz de abordarlos. El verdadero peligro son las sorpresas.

Tutti gli uomini sono inaffidabili.