Quotes About Uncertainty

Maybe that's the way everything changes. Just when you finally believe that anything is stable, and will stay the same.

quoting Steinbeck—Peter said, " 'A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

To answer your question, I don't think you know what you want," he said.

Oh, Charles!" Ma said. "What will we do?" Pa slumped down on a bench and said, "I don't know.

Najtragi?niji oblik gubitka nije gubitak sigurnosti, nego gubitak sposobnosti da zamislimo kako bi život mogao biti druga?iji.

Besides, what is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? The truth is not a finite commodity that can be contained within identifiable borders. The truth is messy, riotous, overrunning everything. You can never know the whole truth of anything. And if you could, you would wish you didn't.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

Her dilemma—the eternal human dilemma—is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future.

the loss of certainty as a child had prepared Clara to expect the worst;

the madness of exchanging mediocre but safe happiness for great happiness but possible disaster.

Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o'clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. It appeals not only to the woman in us all, but the mother. A dangerous combination.

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack. The coffin? I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Hesitation will get you killed.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death. - Jean-Claude