Quotes About Uncertainty

But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.

Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.

Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.

Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincero, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.

It could have been suicide or an accident, or perhaps that grey area in between.

Kev shuddered. This was crazy, but there it was; his name, spelt by an insect... — Boab? Is that really you? Fuckin hell! Eh, buzz twice fir aye, once fir naw. Two buzzes. — Did eh, what's his name, did God dae this? Two buzzes. — Whit the fuck ur ye gaunny dae? Frantic buzzing. — Sorry Boab... kin ah git ye anything? Scran, likesay?

You never know if he's being ironic or dyslexic.

Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincro, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.

What had come from that? All this? Surely not? Life had to be more than a series of unsolvable mysteries. Surely we were entitled to some fuckin answers.

Ah'm thinkin that we've lost, and there's bleak times ahead, and ah'm wonderin: what the fuck am ah gaunny dae wi the rest ay ma life?

Paranoia hit him. Waves of fear shuddered through his body. The stakes were high, the highest ever.

Nikada ne možete biti sigurni u nešto sve vreme. Možete imati samo odvažnosti i snage da u?inite ono što mislite da je pravo. Možda ?e se to kasnije pokazati kao neta?no, ali vi ste ga bar u?inili, a to je ono što je važno.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

Darkness thickened and collapsed about him. Some of it never lifted again.

You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can't always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you've planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.

La humanidad ha perdido todo control sobre su futuro -No lo ha tenido jamás, en realidad.Estuvo siempre a merced de unas fuerzas económicas y sociológicas que no entendía, de los caprichos del clima y de los azares de la guerra.

That was the trouble with the Outside. One teetered forever between unpleasant alternatives.

And he paused, aware at last of the gathering weight of the silence. Fourteen images stared at him, without any of them offering a word in response. Bakst said sharply, You have talked of freedom. You have it! Then, uncertainly, he said, Isn't that what you want?

A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.

Pero ¿podemos permitirnos el lujo de arriesgarnos? ¿Podemos arriesgar el presente por el bien de un nebuloso futuro?

If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

But I'd be killed, and I never like to count on that when I'm making plans. It doesn't pay off.

no matter how sure scientists think they are, nature has a way of surprising them.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?