Quotes About Uncertainty

The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.

remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

My hope, as always, was that someone else would make the decision for me, absolve me of the little responsibility I had.

How do you weigh the known versus the unknown? You can't. It all comes down to what statistics you choose to believe.

I'm still not ready to throw away my moral compass, even if I can't read it.

I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.

I'm not a spy. I'm not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I'm pretty sure if my life depends on doing parkour across rooftops,

ongoing blackout.

I usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

very differently, has got to make you a little on edge.

You're going to die." I tell her this not to be cruel, but out of compassion. It's the uncertainty of things that tears our souls apart. She still thinks this is a dream, but her eyes are focused now. My words are working their way through her broken mind.

There is no sure thing when it comes to investing. Anyone that tells you that your investment is guaranteed to increase is lying through their teeth.

Right from the beginning, I had the sense that whenever he was trying to convince Pin of something, he was really trying to convince himself.

You are a human being. And that's and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.

Churchill summed up the neutrals' position in a radio broadcast of 20 January 1940: 'Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.

Fear and uncertainty accelerate the fall of empires: they are a thousand times more fatal than the dangers and losses of an ill-fated war.' Napoleon, statement in the Moniteur, December 1804

Uncertainty model, a model of political communication on issues that disrupt citizens' expectations of a secure future." ch 2

It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn't matter.

But I didn't trust luck. Luck wasn't reliable.

For me, meeting new people was generally an unfortunate necessity, not an interest. Anabelle Farren might have actually been an exception for me, if I hadn't been absolutely confident that she — or Nakht — was about fifty percent likely to obliterate me if I said the wrong thing. That sort of thing made it hard for me to be enthusiastic,

It's somewhat disconcerting to know that my lifespan is limited by your whim — and your available mana —and not feel any fear about it.

Now that we were inside, theoretically we had gotten to the part of the party that was supposed to be fun. I...just wasn't sure how I was supposed to make that part happen.

My plan was pretty much to flee in terror and hope for the best.