Quotes about Uncertainty
To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.
- George Eliot
You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.
- Tom Cotton
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
- St. Augustine
I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.
- Samuel Beckett
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
- Samuel Beckett
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 too much dejection
- Samuel Johnson
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
- St. Augustine
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
- John Quincy Adams
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
- Charles Stanley
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
- George Lucas
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
- John Guare
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
- Cicero