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Quotes About Uncertainties

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
~ Audre Lorde
True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.
~ Robert C. Solomon
In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for...Most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people's impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations.
~ Robert Kegan
The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are revealed in dazzling clarity.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
~ Robert Venturi
It was infinitely easier to deal with the complications of intracellular life than the uncertainties of child rearing.
~ Robin Cook
Choice gives you doubts and uncertainties. Therefore, you are always somewhat anxious
~ Albert Ellis
That is how it was with them. A closeness, a rapport that was almost entire, except for these small niggling uncertainties which, most of the time, she [Janey Ashcroft] was able to ignore, but sometimes, like tonight, grew like balloons to such size and importance that she wondered how she was going to be able to cope with them. ['Anniversary']
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
~ L. Neil Smith
Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.
~ Lily Collins
The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.
~ David Jeremiah
In the end, human creativity is rooted in life and in the breathtaking fact that life comes equipped with a precise mandate: resist and project itself into the future, no matter what. It may be helpful to consider these humble but powerful origins as we cope with the instabilities and uncertainties of the present.
~ António R. Damásio
Tulbur?rile publice È™i comediile sunt arme profund revelatoare în orice epoc?. Ele dezv?luie climatul psihologic, gravele incertitudini... È™i dorinÈ›a arz?toare de mai bine, amestecat? cu teama c? nu se va realiza niciodat? nimic.
~ Frank Herbert
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting.
~ Franz Kafka
For me, this book activates both transparency and resistance. It urges us to open ourselves up to those hurts, those tribulations, those disappointments, those doubts, those uncertainties. All of which can be summarized as darkness. It walks us through that pain to a light within ourselves, sparking us to resist all that is not for our good and fight for a better way. Simply put, A Wrinkle in Time offers a glimpse of eternity
~ Madeleine L'Engle
What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.
~ Saul Bellow
In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.
~ Scott Westerfeld
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.
~ Manuel De Landa
Yeah, well, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we'd never go hungry. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.
~ Joseph Hertz
At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.
~ John Keats
Go forward and accept the future as it is, with all its complexities and uncertainties.
~ Aurora Berill
Love is not our only emotional need. Psychologists have observed that among our basic needs are the need for security, self-worth, and significance. Love, however, interfaces with all of those. If I feel loved by my spouse, I can relax, knowing that my lover will do me no ill. I feel secure in her presence. I may face many uncertainties in my vocation. I may have enemies in other areas of my life, but with my spouse I feel secure.
~ Gary Chapman