Quotes About Uncertainty

Pagas lo que debes. He hecho de ti un hombre.» Pero ¿qué hombre? Eso es algo que los padres nunca saben. No lo saben de antemano; no lo saben hasta que ya es tarde.)

I'm beginning to understand why people get religion. Just to have something solid that doesn't change into a slippery snake without a word of warning.

Here in America, the only words that didn't exist, the only unspeakable words, were "I'm not sure about any of this. I'm having second thoughts.

and as he aged and the world became less real he began to doubt his own beliefs, so that by the time he saw the God in whom he had never been able to believe or disbelieve he was probably expecting to do so.

If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon—because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

If being prepared for death entails knowing when and where it will happen, the odds are you will not be prepared. Not only are you bound to die and leave this world; you are bound to leave it in such a precipitate fashion that the present significance of anything ? your relationships, your plans for the future, your hobbies, your possessions ? will appear to have been totally illusory.

Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment.

Faith is little more than the shadow cast by our hope for a better life.

While sitting alone in his uncle's study, Ramana suddenly became paralyzed by a fear of death. He lay down on the floor, convinced that he would soon die, but rather than remaining terrified, he decided to locate the self that was about to disappear. He focused on the feeling of "I"—a process he later called "self-inquiry"—and found it to be absent from the field of consciousness.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries.

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.