Uncertain Quotes
449 Uncertain quotes by 380 unique authors
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I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to…
— August Wilson
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Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that…
— Victor Cherbuliez
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Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and…
— Hans Bethe
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If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning.…
— Rajneesh
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While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
— Unknown Author
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
— G. M. Trevelyan
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I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
— Franz Kafka
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To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise…
— Harry Markowitz
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My new long anhyzer disc and controlled fairway driver. It gets the same beautiful flippy hyzer S shot as my Surge, I just don't have…
— Unknown Author
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For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance…
— Leigh Michaels
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative…
— Oliver Burkeman
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Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The…
— Sylvester McCoy
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You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore Hesburgh
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Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your…
— Charlotte Beers
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In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
— Pema Chodron
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Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of…
— Milarepa
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Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the…
— Daniel Gordis
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Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy…
— Jay Conrad Levinson
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War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it…
— Howard Zinn
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Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all,…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel…
— John William Strutt
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By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn,…
— Emanuel Lasker
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