Quotes About Uncertainty

Wish for the best, prepare for the worst

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

I'd compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don't want to bad mouth astrologers.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

People fear they won't get what they want.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever