Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.

There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.

As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again.

You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.