Quotes About Uncertainty

He couldn't remember his former babysitter's name. It was in the Elisa/Alyssa/Alicia vein, but he wasn't sure exactly which.

Io a volte non so, quando quest'uomo è solo - chiuso al buio in una stanza, steso su un letto, uomo al mondo lui solo - io quasi non so s'io non sono, invece del suo scrittore, lui stesso.

It was apparent that there were no facts. Reality was a vague stink that anyone could smell, but no one knew where it came from.

Even if Tellun himself bounded in here with party hats, I'm not sure there would be any reason to celebrate.

I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence – easier sometimes than to wait patiently.

Don't be blind to the vagaries of fate just because everything is going well at present.

I wasn't afraid of the dark. I was afraid of the light—the future.

As for Kristoff, well, maybe Olaf was right. Maybe Kristoff does truly love me. I think I truly love him. At least, I think I could truly love him. We only met a couple of days ago. I don't want to think about true love yet.

Did I say I wasn't ready to think about true love? Maybe I'll take that back.

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.

any doubt what goes on. I'm puzzling over how to do this when

Whenever the constraint is broken it changes conditions to the extent that it is very dangerous to extrapolate from the past." "As a matter of fact," Stacey adds, "even the things that we put in place in order to elevate the constraint must be reexamined.

Everyone around her was just between escaping something and not knowing what might come for them next. All they could do was find those people whose hands they would hold fast when they ran.

The struggle with me has been a very painful one; I cannot enter on the how and wherefore at this moment. I had expected more help than I have found, and am left to myself, and thrown so on my own sense of duty as to feel it right, for the sake of future years, to make an effort to stand by myself as I best can. At the same time, I will not tell you that at the last hour something may not happen to keep me at home.

It's comforting when God lets you get away with something once in a while. And a little unnerving. You start to wonder what he's got set up for you next and why he's softening you up, like.

How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?

Scared of Farweather. Scared of whether or not my gravity trick was going to work if there was another living body in the way of it, or whether Farweather would have better control—or whether the ship itself would intervene with some kind of failsafe to protect her. And I was scared as well of what I might do if my plan worked and I actually did get the upper hand

Kit hesitated in the half-crumbled archway, the torches failing to illuminate the darkness beyond.

There's an eagle feather in my pocket and resolution like a fist clenching my chest and on some deep level I'm dead happy I don't know what comes next.

He clung to flying twigs and underbrush to steady his uncertain descent, his bruised hip aching when he slipped.

This is the last moment of the world we know, isn't it? This is history.

You think you're fine. You think you get through it all right. And then you wake up sure the cold sweat on your face is blood, so real you can taste it.

You manage to disentangle yourself, but then you're out in the hard, cold universe, and suddenly everybody is disagreeing with you-and you have no idea how to manage disagreement and how awful it makes you feel, having never experienced it at all.