Quotes About Uncertainty

Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? 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?

But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

So far no one has claimed responsibility.

How does anyone ever know anything—the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway thunder run at 90 mph, which makes the future the ultimate black hole of futile speculation.

When in doubt, don't.

I think I'd felt that as long as I avoided looking for the tickets, they would be there; it was only if I searched the archive that they'd disappear, as if the past were up until that point indeterminate, that I might outrun it.

The former says he waits for me ahead, but I doubt I'll arrive in time . . .

I think we're supposed to know everything we can figure out. I don't think we're supposed to make up answers just because we can't stand living with unanswered questions.

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. "Dread" is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.

Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think.

He didn't look depressed. He had a careful three-day growth of beard. His beard was not depressed either. But you never can tell.

I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future, but, because the data are incomplete and subject to revision, we cannot even be sure what happened in the recent past. Noisy data make effective policymaking all the more difficult.

but even there confidence was waning, notably overseas.

Weeks passed with no word, and I became convinced that I would be staying at the CEA.

So what is to be done? There are no easy answers. We

If they resisted, what damage could a period of legal uncertainty do?

but with limited data their answers involved a lot of guesswork.

Part of this game is confidence, and looking clueless and uncertain doesn't help.

Inflation prospects posed some tricky issues.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future,

in part because of a resurgence of the European crisis.