Quotes About Uncertainty

Não. Foi um acaso, uma coisa temporária. Até o próximo acaso me levar para outro sítio qualquer. É assim que a vida funciona.

He laughs a little, but there's something in his voice that sounds almost reverent. 'You never know what will last.' He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which ones is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened. 'I think sometimes you do know,' I say, my voice filling with emotion.

É então que, durante uma fração de segundos, eu pergunto a mim própria o que aconteceria se lhes contasse a verdade: que a faculdade não é nada como eu imaginava; que eu não sou nada a estudante do catálogo; que não sou uma aluna universitária feliz da vida; que não sei quem sou. Ou que se calhar sei muito bem quem sou, mas já não quero ser essa pessoa.

Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to commit to it, unwilling to commit to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

sometimes, you can't know until you know

But now? She didn't know what would happen next month. She didn't even know what would happen next week.

No tenía una; era una estudiante en el primer semestre del primer año de la carrera, maldita sea. No todos tenían sus vidas resueltas al momento de salir del útero.

Siedler: 'I remember talking to this young officer whose only concern was whether he would be shot or hanged. The noose, he

Nooit, nooit lijkt de toekomst op het heden.

You could say, Oh, what a horrible time this is! and then it will go ahead and make things even more horrible. And no one will say, but these are good days, acche din! Except for the government, that is.

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

Today is cold. Tomorrow, heat will come. Flowers bloom, then wither. Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life...life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.

For the second time this week, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, about to fall down a pit, a new adventure forced upon me.

I think your kiss got me pregnant," he said. "You had better stay until we know for sure.

We thrust and parry, and I moan as delicious sensation after delicious sensation pours through me. It's a kiss worth every moment of confusion and uncertainty.

did he realize he was about to knowingly pair a Harpy with the goddess of Anarchy. Great. He'd be lucky if his head was still attached in the morning.

When their relationship fizzled out - and he clearly expected it to fizzle out - they would, what? Return to their friendship as if nothing had happened? At least I'll have him in my life.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick one--was feeling generous that day. And if a particularly bad thing happened, a god (usually a different one) was upset about something or other. Gods, in other words, were what most of us would now call chance or luck. And in that sense they served their purpose, by making a random existence seem less random.

Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.

Dr. Seuss books, Oh, the Places You'll Go. The book describes the dreaded Waiting Place, where people wait for the fish to bite, wind to fly a kite, for Uncle Jake, for pots to boil, or a better break …

I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. How can we manage production if we don't know what the demand, priorities, status of work in process, and resource availability are? Suddenly, I'm kicking myself that I didn't ask these questions on my first day.

In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As

doing the same thing twice will not predictably or necessarily lead to the same result. It is this characteristic that makes static checklists and best practices, while valuable, insufficient to prevent catastrophes from occurring. See