quotes about Uncertain
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
-- Ajahn Chah -
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
-- Al Purdy -
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
-- Aldrich AmesSource : Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.
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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 -
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Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
-- Arthur Eddington -
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 -
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Blaise PascalSource : Hans Kung (2006). “Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
-- Brian HerbertSource : Brian Herbert (2003). “Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert”, p.389, Macmillan
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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 -
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
-- Charles Sanders PeirceSource : Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”
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I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain
-- Clifford Geertz -
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 -
What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
-- David EinhornSource : "Einhorn: Tech bubble brewing, shorting momentums". David Einhorn's investor letter, www.cnbc.com. April 22, 2014.
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I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
-- David Levithan -
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Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.
-- Deanna Raybourn -
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 -
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
-- Elia Kazan -
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
-- Gustavo GutiérrezSource : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Hans Kung -
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.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
-- Heraclitus -
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The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
-- Ilya Prigogine -
There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-- Jim Morrison -
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 -
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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
-- John von Neumann -
You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.
-- Juliette Binoche -
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
-- Jurgen Habermas -
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
-- Livy -
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
-- Louis TomlinsonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
-- Mohsin HamidSource : Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin
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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 LowellSource : "Fantastically Wrong: One Astronomer’s Quest to Expose the Alien-Built Canals of Mars" by Matt Simon, www.wired.com. May 21, 2014.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
-- Rupert Sheldrake -
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there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.
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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
-- Scotty Bowman -
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 LennonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
-- T. E. Brown -
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Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
-- Thomas Paine -
I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
-- Timothy Egan -
All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
-- Tove JanssonSource : Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.19, Macmillan
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There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!
-- Verne Lundquist -
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
-- W. H. Auden -
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
-- Warren Buffett -
Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "Cases in the King's Bench" (1773), Hilary Term, 13 Geo. III, Lofft. 147 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 146), 1904.
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Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.
-- Tim O'Brien -
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 -
I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.
-- Hal HartleySource : Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com
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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 -
We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
-- Jeff Corwin