Quotes About Uncertainty

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.

Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. "I'm all confused again." "Oh, so 'm I," Calvin said gaily. "But now at least I know we're going somewhere.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me about living in the immediate moment.

It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it may not happen.

Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don't forget that he never promised he'd say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . . That he cares . . . That is all. Nothing else.

Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be -- we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.

Not so much of dying, if—I'm afraid of annihilation. Of not being.

The stars do not foretell, because what has not happened must be free to happen, as it will.

She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.

and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across.

A. J. Wheeler. He says: "Nothing is more important about the quantum principle than this, that it destroys the concept of the world as 'sitting out there,' with the observer safely separated from it by a 20-centimeter slab of plate glass. Even to observe so minuscule an object as an electron, we must shatter the glass.

she was very frightened because the world had changed all of a sudden and it wasn't hers anymore and she didn't know who owned it.

I think this is one of the situations where there is no right choice. We have to pray that we make the choice that is the least wrong.

Trust easily come by can vanish as easily.

It's not the first incomprehensible thing that's happened in our lifetime," his wife reminded him.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

Nobody said anything about abandoning anybody. That is not our way. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want, and we still do not know what to do. And we cannot allow you, in your present state, to do anything that would jeopardize us all.

Why does anybody do anything? Mimi asked impatiently. Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

didn't know whether or not she

I wish I knew what you were planning to do with your life, Kit McMahon,' Clio said. 'So do I,' Kit agreed fervently.

They hung there, the jackets she had bought for him, the shirts that she took to the Chinese laundry each week, the shoes that she polished until they shone. 'Oh nonsense, I'm doing my own,' she had said the first time he protested, and he hadn't protested again. Of course she had done too much for him. But if she had done any less it would have ended long ago. Long before now. She felt a chill. Why did she think it was ending now?

For one thing nobody seemed to think that

She was still vaguely hopeful that there was love out there somewhere—just a little less sure that she might actually find it.