Uncertain Quotes

449 quotes by 380 authors

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense… — Oswald Chambers
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are… — Jeffery Deaver
How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double… — Og Mandino
He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight… — Cormac McCarthy
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the… — Marquis de Sade
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it… — Jack Canfield
Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Donâ€™t be stupid?" ventured… — Frank Beddor
Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness,… — Jed Rubenfeld
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden… — Saint Augustine
Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it. — Deanna Raybourn
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room,… — J D Salinger
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. — Michel de Montaigne
I'm sure that inside your heart you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were born. Because really,… — Natsuki Takaya
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness — Fernando Pessoa
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying — Thomas Paine
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in… — Franz Kafka
I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a… — Stephen King

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