Quotes About Uncertainty

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.

Just to be able to be at a club like Manchester United for so long when I first joined, you never know how it's going to turn out.

I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.

Joining 'Dancing With the Stars,' you really don't know what you are in for or what to expect.

I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

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As the crow flies. That's how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she'd get home? That wasn't the point. It didn't mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn't stop the earth's slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it could.

We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA or character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan.

Who then to frail mortality shall trustBut limns on water, or but writes in dust.

His speech . . . well, she couldn't be quite so sure of that. It certainly wasn't the kind of speech to which she was accustomed} the vowels were either slightly foreign or slightly cockney. It was better, on the whole, to decide that they were foreign.

We have to move forward together into a future that is not at all secure except for our certitude that God's love is constant.

I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

I don't see any method at all...Sir

Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine.

Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

The road to resolution lies by doubt:The next way home's the farthest way about.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;Judge not the play before the play is done:Her plot hath many changes; every daySpeaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't the kind of thing you can know. It isn't a knowable item.) But then, like every human being, I am not in the habit of entertaining only the emotions I can prove. I'd be a unrecognizable oddity if I did.