Quotes About Uncertainty

Now we sit and wait," the woman said, and she settled into a chair, the gun on her lap. "What are we waiting for?" Jane asked. The woman stared at her. Said, calmly: "The end.

She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither.

When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.

That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.

I never had to worry about anyone else before, about what I could lose. I didn't know it would scare me so much. Now I've got this big exposed Achilles heel, and all I can think about is how to protect it.

It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk.

There is a Zen story about a man riding a horse that is galloping very quickly. Another man, standing alongside the road, yells at him, Where are you going? and the man on the horse yells back, I don't know. Ask the horse. I think that is our situation. We are riding many horses that we cannot control.

sometimes you get to a point in your life where you don't know what you want to do tomorrow, you just know you want to be alive somewhere!

You know, I still don't know whether I loved him or hated him. Loved him, certainly, at first. And then hated him. And now? I don't know. . . . It's complicated.

For what am I now?' 'But a moment since, I was whole and one who could find delight in all things that were given me to do; but now I am as one who is lost and knows not his way.

She wondered curiously where she would be when she died.

I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet.

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

The work that I've gotten in the hiatuses seems to indicate that I will have a little more work after 'Mad Men' than I did when I was scraping by while I was temping in New York, but who knows? People very easily could be like, 'Meh, we're done with that. We've got Jon Hamm. We're good without the weird one with glasses.'

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.