Uncertain Quotes

449 quotes by 380 authors

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem… — Garry Kasparov
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. — Elia Kazan
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for… — James Russell Lowell
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. — Margaret Mead
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and… — Gary Ross
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. — Arthur Schopenhauer
It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason. — Steven Tyler
The future is no more uncertain than the present. — Walt Whitman
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others -… — Frances Wright
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) — Blaise Pascal
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really… — Terry Pratchett
â€¦a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or… — Charles Dickens
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must… — Howard Zinn
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… — C.S. Lewis
She was "a woman of uncertain age. — Marcel Proust
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. — Jim Morrison
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande

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