Uncertain Quotes

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

Willow, things feel more uncertain than ever now," He said finally. "But I love you. For as long as I live - if that's fifty years from now, or just next week - I'll love you.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.

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. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.