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Quotes About Uncertainty

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
~ Jackie Mason
No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.
~ Jerry Fodor
To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.
~ Jalaja Bonheim
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
~ Mark Twain
Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.
~ Ken Salazar
America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
~ Martin Amis
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.
~ Louis L'Amour
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.
~ Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.
~ Karen Scalf Linamen
Lucien?""Yes, Alice?"Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.
~ Gaelen Foley, Lord of Fire
Anything could happen while the dead slept. Which was why some would say a woman shouldn't tread alone through a cemetery at 2:55 on a Tuesday morning in April.
~ DiAnn Mills, Deep Extraction
mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1.
~ Sumit Ð choudhary c2
He didn't know if he was amused or unsettled by her ability to unbalance him the way she had. Correction. He didn't know if he was amused, unsettled or pleased by her ability.
~ Ally Fleming, Conquered
She felt like something had shifted between them but wasn't sure what.
~ Katie Reus, Sweetest Surrender
Things so seldom go exactly the way we plan.
~ Avery Flynn, Bang
How am I making you feel?"She considered the answer. "Like all my nerve endings are on fire. Like I want more, but I don't exactly know how to ask for what I want." She swallowed. "Or maybe I do.
~ Rebecca York, Betrayed
You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?
~ Kathy Bryson, Restless Spirits
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.
~ Adam Rex
Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.
~ Faraaz Kazi
I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Get lost in what might be, and you'll lose your will.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Because change will come as it will, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it. In fact, try to stop it and you trip over the turning wheels.
~ Yasmine Galenorn