Quotes about Uncertainty

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.

She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. She had the strongest desire to get lost.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

Was it fate?" she asked. "Do we care?" he answered.

but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder

You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.

She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure they have a reason to be connected to this world.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel.