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Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.
~ Kathleen Hanna
I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.
~ Lauren Graham
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.
~ Laurence Binyon
I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.
~ LaVell Edwards
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.
~ Leslie Jamison
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.
~ Lewis Thomas
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
~ Louise Erdrich
You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who knows what's next? We didn't' make this world, we're just the poor fools who are living in it.
~ Michael Grant
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
~ Michael Caine
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?
~ Neil Welliver
The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
~ Paul Krugman
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon
~ Robert Jordan
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
~ Saul Bellow
I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.
~ Selena Gomez
Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.
~ Stephen Hawking
I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
~ Stephen King
I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.
~ Steve McQueen
It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.
~ Stone Gossard
In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
~ Terry Pratchett
We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.
~ Tilda Swinton
People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
~ Tom Hanks