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Quotes About Uncertainty

I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
~ Angela Carter
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
~ Angela Carter
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
~ Angela Carter
I am not sure what I want," I said. "I have been assured that HaShem has a special plan for me, but I do not know what it is. But just as our father Abraham waited to see his descendants
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Rose's baby can't be confirmed for the next fifteen years and anything might happen before then," from which words it was perfectly clear to her hearers that she had courageously envisaged the beautiful and comforting thought that the present Bishop of Barchester might be dead by that time.
~ Angela Thirkell
Pero no sé si le quiero. Nunca he sentido ante él aquel temblor que me agitaba cuando Ricardo se acercaba a mí, el deseo de besar mi almohada soñando que le besaba a él, el espantoso vacío de su ausencia…
~ Ángeles Caso
Marcia verwachtte Silas terug met haar Beschermring. Jenna en Nicko verwachtten een bericht van Silas. Maxie verwachtte zijn ontbijt. Jongen 412 verwachtte moeilijkheden.
~ Angie Sage
I don't understand it," Stanley muttered a little shakily, running his paws over his face just to make sure he still had rat fur and not toad warts. "I was sure that was Florrie's place.
~ Angie Sage
What you mean this?" he asked. "You mean me? You mean Boggart?
~ Angie Sage
and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess
~ Anita Brookner
The weather was still fine, but waning in conviction, as if its hold on heat and light were growing weaker.
~ Anita Brookner
I'd like to know what you want out of life." "I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.
~ Anita Higman
Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
~ Anita Shreve
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.
~ Anita Shreve
And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.
~ Anita Shreve
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
~ Anita Shreve
But how do you ever know that you know a person?
~ Anita Shreve
We think that we know what life has to offer, but life never fails to surprise us.
~ Anmol Andore
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
~ Ann Bancroft
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
~ Ann Beattie
It all depended on what Walter decided. If - if he really did care about Rose Barum, she wouldn't stand in his way. It was so glaringly indecent to hold on to one's husband if he wanted someone else. The trouble was that she didn't know what Walter did want, and this was one of those questions you really couldn't ask.
~ Ann Bridge
It was typical that now he was being offered what he'd dreamed of he couldn't make a decision.
~ Ann Cleeves
Doubt was a cancer that grew unbidden.
~ Ann Cleeves
She could make no more demands. He wasn't sure whether the thought pleased or dismayed him.
~ Ann Cleeves