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Quotes About Uncertainty

You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.
~ Pia Toscano
We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
~ Ole Hallesby
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.
~ Oliver Stone
When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.
~ Rachel Caine
I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.
~ Rebel Wilson
There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.
~ Renee Montagne
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.
~ Elton John
Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
~ Elvis Costello
Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
~ Elvis Costello
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
~ Etgar Keret
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.
~ Euripides
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
~ Frank Herbert
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
~ Franklin P. Adams
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.
~ Frederick Lenz
No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.
~ Fredric Brown
All our anxieties relate to time.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Have you ever considered that there isn't a safe time to be around you?
~ Gabrielle
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
~ George Santayana
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.
~ George Saunders
It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.
~ Gerry Adams
There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
~ Haniel Long