Quotes About Uncertainty

We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

Things were progressing as expected, which was to say that she had lost control of her life. In

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncertainty and poverty.

I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.

We start by believing. And we stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

But remember, doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion.

Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.

doubts trigger disbelief only when you can't explain them away.

I believed in you always until I couldn't anymore.

But the truth is that for the most important decisions, there can be no certainty

Some people had doubts about Sandusky. But remember, doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion.

Algunos de estos nuevos pensadores afirman que si tuviésemos un mejor servicio de información, si pudiésemos verlo todo, no podríamos perder», dice el coronel Van Riper. «Lo que mi hermano dice siempre es: "Imagínate que estás mirando un tablero de ajedrez. ¿Hay algo que no veas? No. ¿Y eso te garantiza la victoria? Ni mucho menos, porque nunca podrás ver lo que está pensando el otro".

stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word, the words themselves slanting steeply downhill, though the individual characters seemed as if resisting the descent, braced, climbing the other way.

not holding hands, but with their hands just meeting, as though not quite sure they weren't dreaming this, each of them separately on their far bereaved cots, their hands but blown fragments of their memories, half afraid to commingle, yet touching over the howling sea at night.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Life is one big Coaster Ride -Sometimes You are UP, sometimes Down and sometimes You are in the Middle Screaming your head off wondering what it's all about!!!

If everything is possible, then it is also possible that something is impossible.

To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.

Life is surprises, try not to expect everything.