Quotes About Uncertainty

DoÄŸru yol yüksekte deÄŸil, yerin hemen üzerinde gerili bir ip boyunca ilerler. Üzerinde yürümek deÄŸil de, insan? çelmelemek içindir sanki.

I'm unpunctual, because I don't feel the pains of waiting. I wait like a cow. For when I feel a purpose, even if a very uncertain one, of my momentary existence, I'm so vain in my weakness that, once this purpose has been set before me, I will gladly tolerate anything for its sake. If I were in love, what I could do then. How long I waited years ago under the arcades on the Ring until M.[380] came by and even if she only passed by with her lover.

Sometimes it's as though I were a gladiator in training. He doesn't know what they have in store for him, but to judge by the training he is being put through, it may be a great battle with all of Rome looking on.

Ich schreibe anders als ich rede, ich rede anders als ich denke, ich denke anders als ich denken soll und so geht es weiter bis ins tiefste Dunkel. (10. Juli 1914)

Hace poco me preguntaste por qué digo que te tengo miedo. Como de costumbre, no supe darte una respuesta

Pregunto acaso [...] con la pretensión de que se me conteste? ¿Tengo unas esperanzas tan estúpidas?

Nu sunt punctual pentru c? nu simt suferinÅ£ele aÅŸtept?rii.AÅŸtept apatic,ca o vit?.Dac? aÅŸ avea un Å£el oarecare,cât de nesigur,în existenÅ£a asta a mea,de o clip?,aÅŸ fi atât de vanitos în sl?biciunea mea,încât,în numele acestui Å£el aflat în fa??,aÅŸ suporta totul bucuros.

Mein Großvater pflegte zu sagen: 'Das Leben ist erstaunlich kurz. Jeztz in der Erinnerung drängt es sich mir so zusammen, daß ich zum Beispiel kaum begreife, wie ein junger Mensch sich entschließen kann ins nächste Dorf zu reiten, ohne zu fürchten, daß - von unglücklichen Zufällen ganz abgesehen - schon die Zeit des gewöhnlichen, glücklich ablaufenden Lebens für einen solchen Ritt bei weitem nicht hinreicht.

Birinin hayat?n?n neresinde olduÄŸumu çözemediÄŸim zaman hiçbir yerinde olmamay? garantilerim çünkü belirsizlik, deÄŸersizliktir.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle: maybe there is none.

Nothing alive can be calculated.

The simile of the bird in the hand and the two in the bush has only a very remote application here. In my hand I have nothing, in the bush is everything, and yet—so it is decided by the conditions of battle and the exigency of life—I must choose the nothing.

Istnieje cel, ale nie ma drogi; to, co nazywasz drogÄ…, jest wahaniem.

pytajÄ… wszyscy jeden przez drugiego. Wydaje siÄ™, jakby chciano w ten sposób zatrze? Å›lad prawdziwych pytaÅ".

Oh dear, said the mouse, the world shrinks with every passing day. At first it was so vast I was afraid; I ran on further and was cheered when at last, in the distance, to the right and to the left, I saw walls; but these long walls converge on one another so quickly that I'm already in the final room, and there, in the corner, lies the trap into which I'm running. You just have to change direction, said the cat, and ate him.

De când m? cunosc am avut anxiet??i atât de adânci în privinÅ£a afirm?rii propriei mele existenÅ£e spirituale,încât tot restul mi-a r?mas indiferent.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

Existe um objetivo, mas nenhum caminho; o que chamamos de caminho é hesitação.

UykusuzluÄŸum beni nereye götürdü? Çok iyi anlat?lamayan hiçbir ÅŸeye. Eminim...

En qué terminará esto? —nos preguntamos todos—. ¿Hasta cuando soportaremos esta carga y este tormento? El palacio imperial ha traído a los nómades, pero no sabe como hacer para repelerlos.

It's the fun part of this business: you never know what your day is gonna hold. Some things could be very, very last-minute. It could be at that very last second. So, it's pretty wild, and it keeps you on your toes. That's for sure.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty.