Quotes About Uncertainty

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

None of us know what comes after death. All of us, to some extent, are probably mystified or maybe a little bit frightened of it.

I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you're constantly developing as you're doing it. It's really frightening. You don't quite know how it's going to end up.

'Flash Forward' was one of the big heartbreaks of my career. It was just this very frustrating experience. If we'd been allowed to tell the story we wanted to tell, I don't know that it would've been more successful or not. There's no way to know.

It's not so much frustrating, it's just that if you don't know when you are going to play, how do you focus on a game? That's part of football, though, and if you are going to be at a big club you have to deal with it.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.

When you expect something, there's also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is the proper man—the man with the right to existence—a raging stallion forever neighing after his neighbor's womankind? I don't know. And there is nothing to guide us. And if everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex, what is there to guide us in the more subtle morality of all other personal contacts, associations, and activities?

I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired.

We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves!

What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting.

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.

I go to see a Greater Perhaps.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one ise going to live forever and ever and ever

Are you sure the child was left at a school in Paris? Are you sure it was Paris?" "My dear fellow," broke forth Carrisford, with restless bitterness, "I am sure of nothing.