Quotes About Uncertainty

Not all who hesitate are lost.

Schopenhauer sagely remarks in his paper on The Will in Nature, "we are sunk in the sea of riddles and inscrutables, knowing and understanding neither what is around us nor ourselves.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.

And how am I to face the oddsOf man's bedevilment and God's?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.

A sixth sense warned her that she was striking a Faustian bargain. Odd, since she wasn't sure what a Faustian bargain was. But it was something not to be taken lightly. She knew that.

Life rarely develops as we expect. People surprise us, sometimes in unpleasant ways. They don't always react as we hope they will or want them to.

You never can tell with bees.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be Hostile Animals?

Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. "Well," he said slowly.

Non apibus dubitandem est. (You never can tell with bees.) ~ Winnie ille Pu

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. After careful thought Piglet was comforted by this.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that would be never, and was trying to remember what "it" was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.

She'd also begun to feel like this might not be the best place for her after all. "I

The sound of the surf came through the wide window and John finished his drink, dropped his cigarette butt in the glass, and said to her, "We've had dinner, we made love, we had a drink. What do we do now?

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

Hay muchas cosas irrevocables- dijo Harry-, pero nunca se sabe si lo son o no, hasta que se ha averiguado. Y siempre vale la pena hacerlo.

Almost is such a wonderful word, don't you think?" said the shopkeeper with a wink. "So full of wiggle rom and loopholes, so not absolutely anything.

Almost is such a wonderful word don't you think?" the shopkeeper said with a wink. "So full of wiggle-room and loopholes, so not-absolutely-anything. Almost killed means still very much alive, which I am sure you will agree makes all the difference.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.

Asl?nda anlam do?as? gere?i söyleyece?ini söyleyip hemen kapanmak ister. Belirsizlikten korkar. Yitip gidece?ini san?r. Belirsizlik, anlam yoksunlu?u de?ildir. Tam tersine 'çokanlaml?l?kt?r', s?n?rs?zl?kt?r. ?iir orda boy göstermek ister. Orda kendine gelir." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 61

Ce n'était pas prévu. Le monde était ainsi pourtant, en suspens, en attente. Et j'allais devoir me battre maintenant.