Quotes About Uncertainty

He went out the front door. The sun was blinding after being in the dim house. He walked back to Perry's car, feeling like a boat without a rudder, trapped in a current. He had no place to go and no idea what to do.

I looked at the picture, and Tyson looked back. Dave was speaking, but his voice was lost. I thought about Devon. She would have questions I couldn't answer. She would need help I wasn't sure I could give.

Meryl Lawrence was in her mid-forties, with sandy hair and the trim, sturdy build of a woman who took care of herself. She wet her lips as she stared at the phone, thinking, and finally glanced up. "What

the sort of baleful stare you get when life's a mystery.

Vincent said, "You never answered my question." "What question was that?" "Down south. You think we faced off before?" "No." "How you know that for sure?" "You'd be dead." "That's funny. The boys told me the same thing about you." Pike

Jonathan Green nodded again, then stared at the far wall for what seemed like several minutes. No one moved, and no one spoke. All of the other attorneys stared at Jonathan as if he might suddenly utter some dictum and they would have to act on it. Apprehensive.

Scott told himself to be patient, but wondered what Cole knew. Cole's offer to help was like a worrisome terrier that wouldn't let go of his ankle. Cole might be one of those people who colored outside the lines, but people who hung it over the edge weren't always wrong. Cole might be able to use his secret knowledge and shady connections to break the case faster than Carter. Scott

Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.

Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.

There was always something worse.

Plan for the day when all your plans fail, when those you trust betray you, when your certainty cracks like a rotten egg and you are alone in the storm.

Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.

Not like God reads minds or anything. - He better not, or we're all fucked forever.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

No, this is no beginning. Then an end? End is a gloomy word.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

I may be wrong

Surprise is at the core of existence. It's true. You never ever really know what's coming next.

Life isn't a merry-go-round, it's a roller coaster. Life won't always be smooth, it may not always be pretty, but it will be an adventure — one not to be missed.

Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.

Sometimes, however, it is better to take risks and play the most capricious, unpredictable move.