Quotes About Uncertainty

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

When I got Trophy Wife, the first fear is, This could go away; the second is, Its here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Political life loves some volatility.

In love there is no status quo.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

I bet there's nothing wrong with Barbara's husband, she said. I bet he'd be surprised if he found out he's supposed to be in the hospital.

When you are missing something you've left behind, it could be dead or lost so that you never find it again. You never really know, when you don't have something, what its condition is. That's why you grieve about it to the same degree- because you just don't know.

But how do you stop being afraid? He asked, and his hands made little jerks up and down. I guess you don't really ever stop, I said, But you just have to go on. Like Stanly. You just have to get up in the morning and see what happens. Even though it is hard.

Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life. But I tell you one thing." "What's that?" "It sure makes you appreciate something like this when you know it could all go up in a puff of smoke."           HOWE

I would rather have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback.

We have only thermal sensors to guide us, which is why when you sit down on a wet spot, you can't generally tell whether it really is wet or just cold.

These are all just informed guesses.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.

We live in a world that doesn't altogether seem to want us here.

Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In

we can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.1 About