Quotes About Uncertainty

Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.

Plans fall apart and time moves on.

Do you trust me?' 'I know you want me to say, with my life. But in the interest of complete honesty, I'm going to have to go with sometimes.

can't decide if it's pretty or creepy, which, come to think of it, is about the same way I feel about you.

People do lots of things all the time that aren't guaranteed safe. They decide it's worth the risk.

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

You never can tell with bees.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.