Uncertain Quotes

449 quotes by 380 authors

I donâ€™t want to throw everything away for something uncertain. — David Levithan
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be… — Alberto Moravia
Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer… — James Joyce
There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything. — J.A. Redmerski
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. — Cheryl Strayed
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of… — Rollo May
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. — Mark Twain
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. — Hippocrates
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to… — Samuel Johnson
Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they… — Martin Luther
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether… — Chogyam Trungpa
A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies… — Margaret D. Nadauld
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think… — Dalai Lama
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. — Gaby Hoffmann
Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that. — Rebecca Pidgeon
I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will… — Brad Schneider
Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering… — Cynthia Ozick
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency.… — Robert Dallek

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