Uncertain Quotes
449 quotes by 380 authors
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.
— Tim O'Brien
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The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all…
— Tad Williams
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return…
— Ellen Hopkins
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And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I…
— Elizabeth Scott
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How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow…
— James Redfield
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from…
— Ann Brashares
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class,…
— Claire LaZebnik
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Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
— Haruki Murakami
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Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful,…
— Jimmy Carter
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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…
— Ann Brashares
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But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so…
— Sarah Vowell
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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…
— Martha C. Nussbaum
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I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But…
— Susanna Clarke
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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
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All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
— Tove Jansson
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to…
— Bruce Lee
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness…
— Alan Watts
Who Wrote These Uncertain Quotes
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