Quotes About Uncertainty

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

You never told me how the story ends, Gabe." She held her breath, waiting for his response. His expression held all the love and desire she knew he felt for her. "It doesn't.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be.

Oh! let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about!

What can be wrong?" they asked the doctor and their friends and themselves. "Oh, nothing but colic, it usually is just colic." So the formula was changed, and that did work for a time. But only for a time. It had to be changed again and yet again. Then the doctor himself began to seem uncertain.…

As I stepped onto the gloomy landing a word formed in my mind: two syllables, starts with a V and rhymes with dire. I froze in place. Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and that had to include vampires, didn't it? I doubted they were anything like they were in books and on TV, and one thing was for certain — they absolutely weren't going to sparkle in the sunlight.

You shouldn't make jokes about these things," she said. "Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though,

I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

THE TROUBLE with the old boy network is you can never be really sure whether it's switched on or not and whether it's operating in your interest or some other old boy's.

A)ny working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

He was a Parisian,' he said. 'You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.

We seem to be sitting around waiting for the next fucking disaster." he said, which went into the official log as - DCI Seawoll felt that our operational posture was too reactive.

When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

I happened to know for a fact that the whole of Belgravia nick were running a pool on how long I would last and how I would go—the options being death, medical discharge (physical), medical discharge (psychological), indefinite disciplinary suspension, sacked for misconduct, secondment to Interpol and, with just one vote, ascension to a higher plane of existence. I suspected the last one was a bit unlikely.

Zach Palmer, who was half human and half—we weren't really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well.

What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit.

And I personally don't so much believe in it as have to massage its feet when I go home at night.

Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

What have we got to lose?" I said. Nightingale looked up and gave me a strange, sad smile. "Oh, everything, Peter," he said. "But then, such is life.

Round and round and round we go and where we stop nobody knows.