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Quotes About Uncertainty

As if you could ever protect your children from what life might bring their way. Or even from themselves and their impulses.
~ Terry Brooks
The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment.
~ Terry Brooks
Life was a myriad of twists and turns that no one could unravel, a path that must be traveled to be understood.
~ Terry Brooks
But much of life didn't allow for knowing things in advance, and you had to trust to your instincts and common sense.
~ Terry Brooks
His world was a confusing and treacherously shifting ground, and he did not see that he had any better way to deal with it than simply to keep marching on. It
~ Terry Brooks
Something deep within hinted with dread persistence that he would never go back to what had been
~ Terry Brooks
Cats learn early on that very little is accomplished by worrying. Cats also know that things have a way of working out, even when the means are kept hidden from us. Best to deal with things as they arise, and let the future take care of itself.
~ Terry Brooks
He was waiting, and the waiting was painful. Not because he didn't know how to wait, but because he didn't know what he was waiting for.
~ Terry Brooks
Why do I think that you're going to be the death of me?
~ Terry Brooks
You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain
~ Terry Brooks
Magic works differently for different people, and there is no way of knowing how it will respond. Even those who have used it repeatedly and come to rely on it have found that it can abandon them.
~ Terry Brooks
But sharing the uncertainty and danger made it more manageable than it would have been otherwise
~ Terry Brooks
You think about how fragile life is, about how quickly it goes by, how quickly things become lost. You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain.
~ Terry Brooks
You can live your life worrying about what you don't know, or you can accept your limitations and make the best of it.
~ Terry Brooks
You were guaranteed so little in this life, and so sometimes you took what was offered even though you knew it might end badly.
~ Terry Brooks
But nothing was permanent; all things must change. And no matter the beliefs of some and the wishes of others, life had a way of surprising you.
~ Terry Brooks
I think it is something else. I think we were given a starting point, but nothing more. The future remains undecided. Things may change as events unfold, and we must be ready to change with them.
~ Terry Brooks
He still doesn't know how life can turn you around and twist you about and do with you what it will.
~ Terry Brooks
They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.
~ Terry Brooks
It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.
~ Terry Brooks
They are much more concerned about not doing the wrong thing than doing the right.
~ Terry Brooks
It is conceivable that not knowing the meaning of life is part of the meaning of life, rather as not counting how many words I am uttering when I give an after-dinner speech helps me to give an after-dinner speech. Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism for Karl Marx
~ Terry Eagleton
Macbeth as a whole is awash with questions, sometimes questions responded to by another question, which helps to generate an atmosphere of uncertainty, anxiety and paranoid suspicion.
~ Terry Eagleton
o fato de que os indivíduos esteja mais felizes significa que será mais difícil dizer o que eles estarão fazendo às cinco da tarde de uma quarta-feira
~ Terry Eagleton