Quotes About Uncertainty

I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.

I always think with new musicals, buying tickets is always a gamble.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

I am completely prepared to let the tiger out of its cage in Sochi and see what happens.

When you are constantly in pursuit of security, you are in pursuit of death, because life is never secure. It doesn't matter what you do

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

Within humanity is goodness that is alive and fully intact but, in these times, it is surrounded by the darkness of uncertainty and fear.

When I thought about death in those years, I didn't quite believe in it.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Tú me diste botas espaciales para que pudiera caminar por otros planetas. Sin ti me siento perdido. No sé si tirar a la derecha o la izquierda. No veo el mañana, sólo kilómetros y kilómetros de ayeres. Ahora que te he encontrado, ya no me importa lo que ocurra. Por eso he venido hasta aquí. Por ti. Porque te quiero.

Hoe heet ik?' vroeg ik. 'An,' zei hij. De kaaiman sperde zijn bek open. Zijn tanden, scherp als dolken, glommen in het maanlicht. 'Hoe heet ik?' herhaalde ik. 'Coriander,' gilde Arise.

The point is, you had no way of knowing. But you decided it had to be about you.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

faith without doubt is addiction

So little of what could happen does happen.

I'm afraid of an extra face in the mirror and sudden nights with voices, the deep certainty of things. (from Parca )