Uncertain Quotes
449 Uncertain quotes by 380 unique authors
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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
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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
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She was "a woman of uncertain age.
— Marcel Proust
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
— Jim Morrison
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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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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
— Albert Einstein
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Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
— Neil Peart
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In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject…
— Susan Juby
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous…
— Scarlett Thomas
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A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate…
— John Patrick Shanley
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It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port…
— Charlotte Bronte
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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world…
— Alan Moore
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
— Agatha Christie
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real.…
— Nancy Werlin
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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not…
— Hermann Hesse
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