Quotes About Uncertainty

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved.

No, I thought, there's no way to tell in advance what's behind the cloud that hides the future, but maybe -- just maybe--I can make a difference.

The Peterson Foundation calculates that, since 2010, fiscal uncertainty—i.e., gridlock—might have slowed America's GDP growth by one percentage point and stopped the creation of two million jobs.

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

The palpable obscure.

True trust always involves an element of waiting. It means believing in results that we cannot see. A determination to have the results I want now is a major sign of an inability to trust.

So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.

I'm so afraid, but it's just as wrong to stop, isn't it? Isn't it just as wrong to stop?

the sense of separateness from the rest of the world, as if everyone else knew the part they were playing but I'd never been given a script.

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

A métrica, o ritmo e o andamento todos têm o seu papel no nosso prazer. Ainda que os nossos batimentos cardíacos não estejam ligados ao andamento, certamente que consideramos andamentos mais lentos como sendo mais relaxantes e mais empolgantes os que são mais rápidos. Esta tensão estará provavelmente ligada ao facto de não gostarmos da incerteza e, especialmente, ao nosso receio de não conseguirmos lidar com uma situação.

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

Most people, they are afraid to believe in ghosts. Me, i'm afraid not to believe. Because, well, what then? If there really is nothing else- nowhere to go after this, no way to linger on this plane to finish unsettled business it we must, then that means each moment, each breath, each passing second, is as ethereal as the wind. It means all we do here on earth- the going and coming, the loving and hating- it is all for naught. So, no. Ghosts don't scare me. But no ghosts- that terrifies me.

It seems like a good way to grow up," I told her. "It was. But raising a child holds no guarantees. You can follow all the right steps, do all the right things, and still something can go wrong— Actually, no. That's a word my husband would use. I won't say wrong anymore, I'll say differently than planned. That's what happened to my daughter when she reached her teens.

I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don't believe. But mostly— mostly, mostly— I do.

There were just too many questions; the answers were one more thing being rationed to the survivors ...

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

The road is not certain, and the end of the journey cannot be seen.

Unser Leben ist uns nur für einen Moment geliehen. Niemand weiß, wann der Engel an unsere Tür klopft und die Schuld einfordert.