Quotes About Uncertainty

Happy endings are only stories that haven't finished yet.

The problem is that there is a lot of randomness in results in the short term. The underlying patterns can only be identified once you let the law of large numbers do its work.

Gordon Carter raised both hands for silence. 'The answer to all your questions is: "I have no idea." Sorry, but there it is. Now, I have a pile of marking to do, and intend to get on with it. I'm sure you have a chemistry textbook or something you can look at.' General groans greeted that. 'Or I could always set you a lovely essay … We could recap some of our Merchant of Venice if you prefer?

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.

And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering…that the world can't take away from you.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn. 'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.' 'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.

Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, "It's too soon to tell.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot conceive of that happen.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

adrift in private thoughts, anchored to the world by unfamiliar shadows.

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once

No one had a clue what they were up against: They were marching blindfolded through molasses. And

but everything was a fog. When she tried to focus on a single

It's those little things you can't control that ruin everything.

Come on, Abby," said Kate. "You're going to sit with Uncle Bobby while Daddy and I talk to the policemen." Abby slid off the hospital bed and took her mother's hand. "Is Bob here?" Josh asked. Bob Deuce had been Josh's friend since they were twelve.

I want a one hundred percent guarantee that they'll all be fine." I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. "Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life.

Unfortunately, there are no guarentees in life.

Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

Nikki looks at me, confused. "What's wrong?" I've got a gun stashed in my closet. "Nothin'.

Senior year for me is like a retirement party for a sixty-five-year-old. You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.

and I think of the Negro's life and of its mystery. We have no more marks to guide us than the bird in the air or the fish in the water, and in the midst of this uncertainty we live, and some laugh and others sing.