Quotes About Uncertainty

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur.

Could I trust Him even if I didn't understand?

The fact is we do not know what God is doing through a particular set of circumstances or events.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

Actually, we are the worst for not letting go, for not valuing emptiness, randomness, for not seeing the value of not knowing.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

As far as I could tell, life was nothing but a forced march down a mined highway. Even if you did everything you were supposed to do, sooner of later if was your turn to step on a claymore.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Performance metrics as a measure of accountability help to allocate blame when things go badly, but do little to encourage success,28 especially when success requires imagination, innovation, and risk. Indeed, as the economist Frank Knight noted almost a century ago, entrepreneurship entails "immeasurable uncertainty," which is not susceptible to metric calculation.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Me asomo a la ventana, con temor de ver lo que no quiero ver.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may connect them, though pity, compassion, hope may marry one thing to another, still all that is in process cannot be judged, and that which has passed has gone beyond judgment, which leaves us again, with lives and belongings, places, shuttling here and there, hapless, benighted, discordant.

When I think about what my future holds, it is a bit like looking into the sun. I flinch away, or I don't and my eyes get burned down a bit, like candles, and then I can't see for a while.

One is expecting something , and can't say what — yet when one sees it , one knows what one knew , what one knew and couldn't say . It is this way with death . It is in our nature to feel the extent of it when we face it , and to have it fall away the moment we turn

A man cannot be convinced against his own convictions, but he can be talked into a state of uncertainty and indecision, which is even worse, for that means that he cannot trade with confidence and comfort.

Americans now fear outliving their assets more than they fear dying.