Uncertain Quotes

449 Uncertain quotes by 380 unique authors

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than… — Al Franken
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than… — Benjamin Franklin
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. — Julia Gillard
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the… — Emma Goldman
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. — Democritus
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on… — Alan Dershowitz
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People… — Lena Dunham
I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. — Freeman Dyson
I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come… — Roger Ebert
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. — Theodore Hesburgh
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
…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

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