Quotes About Uncertainty

Life is like a game of poker. Sometimes it bluffs you. Sometimes you're down when you give it all you got and sometimes you have a full house. It can be predictable or unpredictable. Depends on how you live it.

But there is very little emphasis within our educational systems on the education of the imagination, which requires sustained encounters with uncertainty.

Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to...

terrible fates are inevitable

What's the point?" I asked even though I didn't expect an answer. He shook his head. "I don't know. Power." He took a drag on the cigarette. "To what end?

I discover that nothing is ever certain. A name, a birthday, an entire life can be invented, and that being so, can be changed.

Picture the rest of your life without Del and give me a one word description of it." "I can't decide between bleak or pathetic," Tyler admitted finally. "There you go.

Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself—it is the greatest secret I keep from myself.

And another dark shadow on a dark lawn: the fact that for a woman of curiosity, no decision will ever feel like the right one. In both, too much is missing.

Such people will suddenly tell you they have another plan, and they always do it the moment things start getting difficult. But it's their everlasting switching that's the dangerous thing, not what they choose.

In this book, all results from the flipping of coins result from the flipping of actual coins.

There's no point in talking about ifs.

My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table?

Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.

Exactly what was wrong with her? And could she pass it on to any children she may have?

if I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down." "Why not?" "Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

You can get hurt at any time.

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.