Quotes About Uncertainty

Ik weet niet hoe het komt, kapitein Short, maar telkens wanneer je het met me eens dreigt te zijn, word ik bijzonder nerveus. - Root

Oh, said Mown, a handy non-committal syllable to have around when you haven't the first clue as to what you are feeling.

And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass.

Don't think about it, Holly told herself. Don't think about the white-hot magma flow that's going to engulf this tiny craft. Don't think about hurtling toward the surface with a MACH 2 force trying to turn you inside out. And certainly don't think about the blood-crazed troll ready to disembowel you with his tusks. Nope. Don't think about any of that stuff.…Too late.

Buff: What are you doing now? Bee-Bee: I don't know. You mean like now? Like right now? Waiting.

Jeff: At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it...

While freedom can be achieved, it may also be reduced or rescinded, It can never be taken for granted.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

The self-confidence of even the consistently successful is never absolute. They are never sure that they know all the ingredients which go into the making of their success. The

Quando gli uomini si trovano di fronte a qualcosa di nuovo che li coglie impreparati, si affannano a cercare le parole per dare un nome all'ignoto, anche quando non possono definirlo né comprenderlo.

El mundo del tercer milenio seguirá siendo, muy probablemente, un mundo de violencia política y de cambios políticos violentos. Lo único que resulta inseguro es hacia dónde llevarán

nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

Falling in love is like falling off a building—it doesn't hurt till the end.

With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.

In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.

You never know what's coming for you.

If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.

Great leaders sometimes need to appear unbalanced, he thought: "What seems 'balanced' and 'safe' in a crisis is often the most risky.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you don't risk anything, you risk more

and the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more...

if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.