Quotes About Uncertainty

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

For we know not what we should pray for.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.

To be sure, there is no advance guarantee that when two practices are in total or massive conflict with each other, one of them will be more firmly established than the other. But that is just an example of the general point that the human condition provides no guarantee that we will not be faced with questions we have no way to settle.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,

Prime Neuron Untriggered? First Decider Undecided?

His eyes tight, his head angled in surmise, Karras rose and stared down at the priest, demanding huskily, "Who in the hell are you, pal? Who are you?" The soft

Well, what's wrong?" "I don't know, Doc, I just can't describe it! Please come over right away! Come now!

didn't," Chris told him. "She was also sedated when last we spoke?" "Yes, she was." "I thought I saw her at her window that day." "Well, you're mistaken." "It could be. Perhaps so. I'm not sure." "Listen, why are you asking all this?" "Well, a clear

Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us

the meantime, I don't know who you are, but you

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

Ambivalence is simultaneously wanting and not wanting something, or wanting both of two incompatible things. It has been human nature since the dawn of time.

It could be worse, Shawn said... We're all sitting around this fire not knowing which one among us is the person who has been systematically picking us off... Now imagine that while we're sitting here, Reggie's head falls off his body, grows spider legs, and runs away into the darkness. The silence following Shawn's remark was the quietest Gus had ever heard. Even the fire stopped popping and sparking for a moment.

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.