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Quotes About Uncertainty

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
~ Djuna Barnes
Sledi sebe, to je ipak najlakše. (...) Bogdan ostade na peronu gledaju?i u voz dok se ne zagubi me?u drve?em niz Kolubaru, ne veruju?i da je najlakše slediti sebe.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
Sumnja mi preseca zalet, priznajem.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
U prošlost se uvek vra?amo kad nam je stvarnost neprihvatljiva, a budu?nost neizvesna. Kad nam sadasnjica uhrozi ili poruši vrednosti u koje smo verovati I koje su nam ?inile smisao, mi u istoriji trazimo uto?ište I razloge za nadu.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
If it's doubtful, it's dirty.
~ Doctor Bob Jones Senior
I asked what he had learned from the life. "Sometimes you have to go with the unknown.
~ Dolores Cannon
What's scary is the ability to understand multiple situations and not know which is right.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything's possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there's no more empty space?
~ Dominic Smith
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
~ Don DeLillo
Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Don Marquis
One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.
~ Don Piper
When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.
~ Don Piper
And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you're safe.
~ Don Winslow
A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself.
~ Don Winslow
I don't know what the hell I was doing, all right?! I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
~ Don Winslow
he's not sure how safe this meeting is going to be. And
~ Don Winslow
Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.
~ Don Winslow
I don't know about this," Cirello says. "What you don't know?" "Like why here?" Cirello asks, looking around. "All this empty space. Parking lot, a construction site …" "You scared, white?" "I'm not white, I'm Greek," Cirello says. "You see that movie, 300? Those were Greeks." "Didn't show that at V-Ville. Too gay.
~ Don Winslow
I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
~ Don Winslow
The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?
~ Donald Antrim
In this century theres been much stress placed not upon what we know but on knowing that our methods are themselves questionableour Song of Songs is the Uncertainty Principle.
~ Donald Barthelme
Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.
~ Donald Barthelme
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
~ Donald Barthelme
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
~ Donald Barthelme