Quotes About Uncertainty

Mr. Murray had no doubt about Miss Minton's honesty. It was her sanity he was not sure about.

and all I could see was a teary streaking of lights and little bubbles of color before I had to close up again, to shut myself in; so it couldn't be, it couldn't be the case, there's no way that all this was moving around me, Einstein was wrong-

Sometimes it's like I'm living my life waiting for more bad news.

I answer that I cannot answer.

This is the hour I hide everything Behind my eyes To see if you can see All the trouble my brain's been brewing. Yes, I feel I am the worst and you are the best And yet, and yet, Nothing bad unfolds as we sit, Young and nervous, Alive and bursting, With futures that may not entwine. Who am I? Who am I to sabotage what may be too small For even chaos to notice And disassemble?

She spent a great deal of time staring into space, oppressed by the sense that she was waiting. But waiting for what? She did not know. Surely someone would call, someone must be needing her. Yet each day proceeded like the one before. Nothing intense, nothing desperate, ever happened. Time did not move. The home, the city, the nation, and life itself were eternal; still she had a foreboding that one day, without warning and without pity, all the dear, important things would be destroyed.

The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado. On

Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva.

She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates—you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And

Every single year I was on the block - could be cut, could be released.

When Carlisle released me, I felt as though the dream of being a footballer was over.

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.

There's always nerves when you're releasing something.

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

For most athletes, there's a focus on your own fitness, but I have to rely on my horse, too. I've been very lucky so far, and it hasn't presented a problem, but you can never count on a competition going as planned until you're there and actually doing it.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

It was important for me to have something to fall back on and not just rely on my athletics to get me through everything because, clearly, at any point, something could happen.