Quotes About Uncertainty

Everyday things became so strange, when you were waiting for something dreadful to happen. Her heart was pounding fast.

She'd spent nearly half her life with Matthew, and not until a hard, bright diamond ear stud had appeared in their bed had she realized that he was living a life apart, and was not, and perhaps never had been, the man she thought she knew.

Was she to spend every holiday, for the rest of her life, wondering whether she was in love with Cormoran Strike?

Don't turn your back, don't show your profile, You'll never know when it's your turn to go.

but I can't stand the idea that I'll go to my grave never knowing what happened.

We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things we do not yearn to see Around us: and what see we glancing back? Christina Rossetti Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets

I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope… Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore

He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Luna Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother… sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

insouciance, he was edgy. Why didn't he ask why Strike was there? Or did

If you don't have any observation to show which hole the electrons go through, them you get interference between the effects of the two holes. If you do observe the electrons, then you find that indeed they are in one place or the other, not both, but in that case they also act as you would expect if they had come through one hole only and you do not get any interference. The problem is that there is no way in which you can look at the electrons without disturbing them. . . .

It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

I don't have all the answers. (...) Let me be really clear about that.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

Battle against obscurity

No, father, we are losing; and we shall go on losing, and I think we must even be ready for a catastrophe at any moment.

This is what I see," becomes replaced by a question: "Is this what I see?" You share his hesitations about the positions of a tree or a branch; or the final shape of Mont Ste-Victoire, and the trees in front of it. Relativity is all. Doubt becomes part of the painting's subject.

The preacher John R. Rice said, "Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.

This time, as we went over the bridge on the way to the airport, my attorney asked me, "Well, how do you feel now?" I thought about it for a moment, then looked at him and answered, "Intimidating.

Question: What is an optimist? Answer: One who thinks the future is uncertain.

a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Time to toss the dice