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Quotes about Uncertainty

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.
- Toni Morrison
What you reckon make him do a thing like that? Beats me. Just nasty. Well, they ought to take her out of school. Ought to. She carry some of the blame. Oh, come on. She ain't but twelve or so. Yeah. But you never know. How come she didn't fight him?
- Toni Morrison
Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.
- Toni Morrison
C. S. Lewis put it, "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- Kristen Heitzmann
Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.
- Carolyn Custis James
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
- George Lucas
When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.
- Anonymous
The night is dark, and I am far from home.
- John Henry Newman
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson
I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
- JM Coetzee