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Quotes About Uncertainty

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.
~ Tommy Franks
Something stinks here, and this time, it's not just him.
~ Triple H
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
~ Warren Buffett
I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.
~ Edward Norton
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
~ Godfried Danneels
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?
~ Jandy Nelson
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
You never know the last time you'll see a place. A person.
~ Jenny Han
The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.
~ Jeremy Hardy
Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.
~ Jim Palmer
Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.
~ John Flansburgh
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.
~ Bob Matsui
My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.
~ Chuck Klosterman
There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'
~ Danny Dyer
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.
~ Eugene Mirman
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
~ Francis Bacon
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
~ George Lucas
I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.
~ Hank Azaria