Uncertain famous quotes

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
-- Ajahn Chah

#Suffering #Uncertain #Certainty

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
-- Al Purdy

#People #Age #Uncertain

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Tasks #Credit #Uncertain

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
-- Ann Brashares

#Uncertain #Messy #Mess

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Statistics #Life Is #Uncertain

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Guilt #Twisted #Uncertain

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Math #Uncertain #Certain

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
-- Brian Herbert

#Desire #Canvas #Uncertain

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
-- Carl Jung

#Feelings #Doubt #Uncertain

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#Military #War #Uncertain

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Reputation #Uncertain #Tenure

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Easy #Uncertain #Certain

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain
-- Clifford Geertz

#Thinking #Neurology #Uncertain

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
-- Daniel Ek

#Guy #Uncertain #Wanted

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
-- David Einhorn

#Might #Pops #Uncertain

I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
-- David Levithan

#Want #Uncertain

Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.
-- Deanna Raybourn

#Life Is #Uncertain

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Transformation #Consciousness #Uncertain

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
-- Elia Kazan

#Uncertain #Anticipate

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Peace #Uncertain #Quietness

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez

#Promise #Uncertain #Fulfillment

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Hans Kung

#Intriguing #Uncertain #Certain

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.
-- Helen Dunmore

#Men #Poet #Uncertain

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
-- Heraclitus

#Stronger #Connections #Uncertain

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
-- Ilya Prigogine

#Heart #Creativity #Uncertain

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
-- J.A. Redmerski

#Differences #Uncertain #Fear Nothing

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-- Jim Morrison

#Time #Ends #Uncertain

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
-- Jim Valvano

#Life Changing #Moments #Uncertain

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
-- John von Neumann

#Problem #Uncertain #Term

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Jobs #Waiting #Uncertain

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
-- Jurgen Habermas

#Embarrassing #Danger #Uncertain

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
-- Livy

#Feelings #Crowds #Uncertain

Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
-- Louis Tomlinson

#Live Life #Moments #Uncertain

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
-- Martha C. Nussbaum

#World #Kind #Uncertain

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
-- Mary McCarthy

#Variation #Morality #Uncertain

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
-- Max von Laue

#Long #Wavelength #Uncertain

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
-- Mohsin Hamid

#Past #Uncertain #Uncertain Future

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
-- Percival Lowell

#Mars #May #Uncertain

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
-- Plautus

#Law #Littles #Uncertain

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
-- Rupert Sheldrake

#Would Be #Uncertain #Skeptical

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.
-- Sara Coleridge

#Facts #Uncertain

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
-- Scotty Bowman

#Hockey #Uncertain #Sure Thing

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
-- Sean Lennon

#Air #Transformation #Uncertain

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
-- T. E. Brown

#Schemes #Phonetics #Uncertain

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
-- Theodore Hesburgh

#Blow #Uncertain #Trumpets

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
-- Thomas Paine

#Death #Dying #Uncertain

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
-- Timothy Egan

#Believe #Facts #Uncertain

All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
-- Tove Jansson

#Uncertain #Feels

There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!
-- Verne Lundquist

#Kentucky #World #Uncertain

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
-- W. H. Auden

#Men #Taste #Uncertain

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
-- Warren Buffett

#World #United States #Uncertain

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

#Justice #Injustice #Uncertain

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.
-- Tim O'Brien

#Blood #Reason #Uncertain

Human science is an uncertain guess.
-- Matt Prior

#Science #Uncertain #Accounts

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.
-- Gordon Smith

#Sound #Imagine #Uncertain

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.
-- Hal Hartley

#Uncertain #Expected

I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.
-- Shary Boyle

#Knowing #Kind #Uncertain

We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
-- Jeff Corwin

#Earth #Uncertain Times #Uncertain