Quotes About Uncertainty

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

We often what to be a success but we don't know why.

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.