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Quotes About Uncertainty

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
~ J. K. Rowling
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.
~ John Steinbeck
When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
~ Ken Hensley
My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.
~ Martin O'Neill
Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.
~ Peter Andre
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
~ Peter Jackson
FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.
~ S. J. Perelman
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
~ Sam Donaldson
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.
~ Lisa Kleypas
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.
~ Carol Shields
...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
~ Colleen McCullough
All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
~ Eric Clapton
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
~ Cormac McCarthy
None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
~ Denise Mina
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
~ Emile M. Cioran
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
~ Frank Herbert
She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
~ Gail Carriger
I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.
~ Hilary Swank
How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?
~ Hyman Rickover
Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.
~ Kevin DeYoung