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Quotes About Uncertainty

It is true, I do expect bad things rather than good, and even when they are good I worry about when they will stop being good.
~ Jean Ure
I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.
~ Jean Ure
What would it have mattered? What does any of it matter? You don't have to look at me like that! I'm not mad! I know what's going on . . . we'd all of us be better dead!' There was a long silence; then Shahid, grimly, said: 'I expect, very soon, we all shall be.
~ Jean Ure
It seems so silly, everyone avoiding everyone. We are all just terrified, I suppose. But what is it that we are terrified of? Are we terrified of catching the disease or are we terrified of being knifed or strangled?
~ Jean Ure
Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.
~ Jean Webster
présent, la version des événements sans jamais pouvoir affirmer que celle-ci est définitive.
~ Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
De toutes les industries de l'être humain, la navigation me parut la plus audacieuse. Chevaucher les flots, livrer son sort à l'errance du vent et aux turbulences des eaux, partir en direction de rien avec l'espoir, sinon la certitude, d'y rencontrer quelque chose, ces activités de marins me semblaient être le fruit de rêves plus fous encore que les miens.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Nu mai tr?im un prezent placid, ci suntem prinÈ™i cu toÈ›ii în efortul de a ne preg?ti permanent pentru viitor.
~ Jean-Claude Carrière
Are you there, Jean-Do?' she asks anxiously over the air. And I have to admit that at times I do not know any more.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
Sometimes Robert believed one thing and sometimes the other, and he wondered if that was true of all those who loved too much and in vain.
~ Jeane Westin
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There's a blessing in the moments after terror and before confirmation.
~ Jeanine Cummins
And she'd believed, truly, that Javier wouldn't hurt them. What she wouldn't give to go back to that moment with Sebastián, to say anything else.
~ Jeanine Cummins
searches her gauzy memories, but it's no use. She can't remember why, and it doesn't matter anyway.
~ Jeanine Cummins
The worst will either happen or not happen, and there's no worry that will make a difference in either direction.
~ Jeanine Cummins
he can put off knowing what he already knows. He can prolong the moment of irrational hope that maybe some sliver of yesterday's world is still intact.
~ Jeanine Cummins
When at last they begin to move, instead of happiness or relief, they all feel a tentative, miniature suspension of dread.
~ Jeanine Cummins
She has a new understanding about the futility of worry. The worst will either happen or not happen, and there's no worry that will make a difference in either direction. Don't think.
~ Jeanine Cummins
The worst will either happen or not happen, and there's no worry that will make a difference in either direction. Don't think.
~ Jeanine Cummins
she has a new understanding about the futility of worry. The worst will either happen or not happen, and there's no worry that will make a difference in either direction.
~ Jeanine Cummins
introduction, shaking his head.
~ Jeanine Cummins
She thought that here in el norte, she'd have to worry more about Border Patrol, about the possibility of Luca being taken from her, and less about random men with guns enforcing their own decrees.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Parents almost always want what's best for their children. They just don't always know what that is.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Was she in love? Rosalind had asked herself that many times in the last few weeks. Anna's mother said you're in love when you feel like you've been hit by a truck. Rosalind felt bad enough for a motorcycle, maybe, but not a truck.
~ Jeanne Birdsall