Quotes About Uncertainty

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

nothing is certain in life except death and taxes

Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

I felt as if I had gotten to the point where I could no longer trust myself. I was not the same person any longer. My whole genetic makeup had somehow been altered by him and I was a brand new person, one that was completely foreign to me.

Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.

Hast du manchmal Angst?", fragt er. "Ich meine nicht Angst vor einer Prüfung. Oder dem Erzieher. Sondern so richtig Angst. So Angst vor dem Leben. Weißt du?" Troy schluckt. Er beugt sich nach vorn. "Leben ist Angst haben", sage ich. Mir wird unangenehm. Eigentlich habe ich noch nie darüber nachgedacht. Aber ich glaube, es stimmt.

Wir können nicht unsere Hand dafür ins Feuer legen, wie wir unter bestimmten extremen Umständen reagieren. Seither bin ich Moralisten gegenüber sehr empfindlich.

My legs are very wobbly now. I've always been slightly unsteady on my pins, but I do find myself swaying about a bit and I hope it isn't anything serious, because if I couldn't walk, I would be in a jam. But there will come a moment when I realise my political life is over. My hearing is absolutely completely gone! It's lovely, in the sense that I go along the street and I don't hear any traffic noise, but I don't hear anybody saying anything.

The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked.

I find the answers aren't so clear Wish I could find a way to disappear

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also, by contrast, reflect on how nature so often offers grace.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation - regardless how sound those numbers are - wouldn't be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.