Quotes About Uncertainty

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

everyone is making love or else expecting rain

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world

There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone.

It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with jagged lightning edges. Many got it wrong and never did get it right. I went straight into it. It was wide open. One thing for sure, not only was it not run by God, but it wasn't run by the devil either.

Something is happening but you don't know what it is.

And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke. • • •

I wasn't feeling so invincible at the moment. Defiant, maybe. Anything but content. Surrounded on all sides. As far as I could see, nothing was visible.

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

He immediately corrected that thought; he had no idea what reality was

contingencies

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

For Carter, it was as if the ghosts of Watergate stalked the halls of the White House. As with most ghosts, he wasn't sure they existed, where they were or how to exorcise them.

But how many more deaths?" Trump asked. "How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?

the West Wing was hurtling toward a strange new reality. A fantasy.

La oscuridá es la sangre de las cosas heridas. En el incierto ocaso la tarde mutilada fue unos pobres colores.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world? = MEETING =

One day Larisa Fyodorovna left the house and did not come back again. Evidently she was arrested on the street in those days or died or vanished no one knew where, forgotten under some nameless number on subsequently lost lists, in one of the countless general or women's concentration camps in the north.

Avevo la coscienza in disordine. Ho fatto cilecca in un bel po' di cose.

Tienes esperanzas? —preguntó Lazuli. —Como no las tenía desde hacía muchísimo tiempo —dijo Wolf—. Pero no me inspira mucha confianza. Ocurrirá como las otras veces. —¿Qué pasó las otras veces? —dijo Lazuli. —Nada —respondió Wolf—. Una vez terminado, no quedaba nada. Sólo decepción. En fin....no se puede permanecer siempre a ras de suelo.

L'uso del condizionale osservò Giacomorto è spesso una confessione di impotenza - o di vanità.

He had long ago learned to take his peaceful moments where he could find them. Who knew what tomorrow would bring?

Truly there is no such thing as finality.