Quotes About Uncertainty

The waves move outward from Amber and this, too, may pass away-and me along with it.

The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

The price of being an Amberite, I suppose, is that you cannot even trust yourself.

Who knows? Maybe something valuable in these notes?

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

was. Is she ours? French? British?" For long seconds Caleb studied the incoming fleck. "Can't tell." "How many? We got the whole British

In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.

Shaped by a childhood of uncertainty, he aspired to be self-sufficient in business

Most of these highly speculative investments never panned out.

Had he known what lay ahead, it seems doubtful that he would have persevered.

Such a time never came.

His insecurities only worsened as he had more to lose.

What nobody could have foreseen in 1913 was that

As mudanças na condição humana são incertas e frequentes. Muitos aos quais a fortuna concedeu favores podem descobrir que, no passado, as condições de sua família nada tinham de prósperas; e muitos que hoje estão na obscuridade procedem de ancestrais afortunados e nobres.

The doctors found evidence of cancer but were unsure of their diagnosis and delayed telling him until February 1905.

When you're a theorist, the two most addictive states to be in are excited and confused

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. —DONALD RUMSFELD

The most remarkable leaps into the unknown are often not fully appreciated

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Everybody knows what's going on, she thought, but nobody knows where it's headed. And soon nobody will remember what the point was.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

Why was it so hard to tell the difference between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves?

If in doubt, say nothing.

Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.