Quotes About Uncertainty

What's the worst that could happen? A tornado picks up our house and slams it down in a better neighborhood.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.

Amy, honey." He rubbed my arm gently, as if telling me bad news. "You shouldn't listen to me. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

For an age we stood there like that, me holding him by the collar of his jacket and kissing him for all I was worth, him standing there, hands up like I was frisking him with no idea what to do about it. It. Was. Awesome.

The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period of time, all choices tend to normalize on a curve of random distribution." "You mean if you wait long enough, nothing happens?

Laura decided to send a cable to Lady Honoria after all, on the chance that she might still reach her in Baden-Baden. But while she was planning what to say, she felt, all of a sudden, the room start to spin about her, dizzying her, so that she fell back across the bed and across the pillows wondering what was happening to her until everything went as pitch-black as night and she sank down and down and down into a dark, endless tunnel.

Svetlana felt that something had changed in her. "Some inner line of demarcation" had been drawn. Something was totally lost. She did not yet know what this meant. Oddly, she also felt a kind of peace. She did not cry.

What will they be like, the people we come back to? What will it all be like?" he whispered suddenly in anguish.

I simply--don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

I am worried about this, but there's nothing to do but try.

Willow shook his head. If he'd picked her lock a few days earlier, if he'd peeked into her closet, he'd have known then, and four people would have lived.

I'm just a floating question-mark, waiting for an answer to hook onto me.

The fact is that the future will not be a continuation of the past. It will be a series of discontinuities. And only by accepting these discontinuities and doing something about them will we stand any chance of success and survival in the twenty-first century.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

I was overstating my case. I wasn't at all sure I had a case and I was overstating it. I have a tendency sometimes to start saying things I don't necessarily actually think, because I don't want people to leap too soon to conclude that I can't possibly think what I think they think I can't possibly think.

Pense na vida como uma imensa roleta. Há probabilidades infinitas à nossa espera. Coisas boas, coisas más. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa boa. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa ruim. Quem é responsável? Ninguém.

Viver é jogar essa roleta, sem fim. É sempre possível que algo terrível me aconteça. Se acontecer, eu sofrerei. Mas não culparei ninguém. Sofrerei sem revolta, sabendo que Deus é inocente.

é preciso decidir, sabendo que qualquer caminho será doloroso e sem segurança sobre o final. Para ser honesto, essa é a condição geral da vida: nunca se sabe. "Se é bom ou se é mau, só o futuro o dirá".

a vida é assim: somos pequenos barcos de velas brancas no mar desconhecido. Os remos são inúteis. A força dos elementos é maior que a nossa força.

Os silêncios são sempre embaraçosos porque nunca se sabe o que o outro está pensando...

But you need to realize that we are constantly in flux, and everything changes constantly, even you. You're always in a state of 'becoming'. There is no point in grabbing onto anything – people, money, clothes, stuff. No point. There is no safety anywhere because everything is the unknown. And

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.