Quotes About Uncertainty

Gott helfe uns, jetzt sind wir den Technikern ausgeliefert.

Pero la ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

He says, 'I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.' 'You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all.' 'But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and then you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage and perform in a play for which she is not appropriately dressed, and for which she has not adequately rehearsed.

He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.

Writing in that state is the most profound satisfaction she knows, but her access to it comes and goes without warning. She may pick up her pen and follow it with her hand as it moves across the paper; she may pick up her pen and find she's merely herself, a woman in a housecoat holding a pen, afraid and uncertain, only mildly competent, with no idea about where to begin or what to write. She picks up her pen

I think I know what frightens Clare - a certain ability to invent our own future has been lost. ... Now the good things are the predictable ones, and surprises mean bad news.

Yine de bu kaba ve y?k?lmaz dünyay? seviyor, baÅŸkalar?n?n da sevdiÄŸini biliyor, hem yoksullar?n hem zenginlerin, hiç kimse bunun nedenlerinden özel olarak söz etmese de. Yoksa, ne kadar karars?z olsak da, ne kadar yara alm?? olsak da neden yaÅŸamak için çaba harcayal?m ki?

I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.

I knew what was waiting out there for me," he said. "Terrifying things. There were German patrol boats, mine fields, and nearly a thousand miles of stormy seas." "So why did you do it?" "Because also waiting for me was the most terrifying and wonderful thing of all. The future.

How does one come to the point in his or her life when he or she is not only ready but eager and willing—however terrifying the prospect might be—to self-execute such a leap of faith without any guarantees that it will do any good?

no one knew what was going on! It was completely open to interpretation. And his guess was as good as anyone's. My God, probably even better.

Everything will turn out all right. You'll see. -I can't imagine how, said Atreyu. -Neither can I, said the luckdragon. But that's the best part of it.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

If you do, you'll be running an incalculable risk. It will be up to you whether the world begins to live again or stands still forever and a day. Are you really prepared to take that risk?

In the beginning, it is always dark.

Como marioneta dirigida por manos inexpertas, camina calle abajo dando traspiés, se le doblan las rodillas, recupera el equilibrio y prosigue su marcha vacilante.

Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics.

Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me.

Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...