"To some degree we all live with uncertainty.……" — Karen Thompson Walker
"To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made."
—
Karen Thompson Walker
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
38 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker has 38 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
-
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when…
-
But the past is long, and the future is short.
-
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the…
-
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
-
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back.…
-
I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are…
-
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
-
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as…
-
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived…
-
Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's…
-
Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
See all 38 quotes by Karen Thompson Walker »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »