Uncertainty Quotes - page 4

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. (Al Stewart)
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. View quote
David Mallet
The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty. View quote
Daphne Koller
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors. View quote
Grace Napolitano
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. View quote
Georg Baselitz
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. View quote
Julian Baggini
Investors don't like uncertainty. View quote
Kenneth Lay
When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall. View quote
Kenneth Lay
I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end. View quote
Karen O
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. View quote
Luis Gutierrez
Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it. (Pete Sessions)
If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. View quote
Richard V. Allen
If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. View quote
Ron Silver
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers. View quote
Richard Curtis
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician. View quote
Sherwin B. Nuland
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all. View quote
Vernon A. Walters
The times we live in are alternately derided for their failings and romanticized for their emerging opportunities. It sometimes seems that we now live amid greater violence, greater uncertainty; that the world suffers more conflicts and tragedies; that the poor are poorer and greater in number; that race, ethnicity and nationalism divide us more intractably than ever before. But that is not so. Human beings are still capable of violence and cruelty. We all succumb to sin. But look back at any preceding century or even just a few decades, and you will see cruelty, violence and misery on a scale that is, with few exceptions, unknown today. View quote
John McCain
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. View quote
Charlie Sheen
We have pushed hard to ensure that the UK negotiating line takes full account of Scotland's circumstances - and we will continue to do so. But we have no guarantee of success. Nor can we be sure that Scottish interests will not fall victim to trade-offs that the UK Government has to make at the Brussels negotiating table. Independence would remove that uncertainty at a stroke. View quote
Alex Salmond
Decisions and plans made by others... [can be judged to be] quantitatively at least as important as the primary uncertainty arising from random acts of nature and unpredictable changes in consumers' preferences. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
I had manufactured artificial goals as a means of motivating myself, using my longing for money, cars, and other material possessions to create a false sense of purpose. They had worked on me like spoonfuls of sugar- a jolt of energy that soon faded, leaving behind the pangs of a deeper hunger. I had cut myself off from the transcendent hope of religion, and now a vast and frightening expanse of uncertainty lay before me. (Clarence Thomas)
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. View quote
Dan Millman
A religion is sometime a source of happiness, and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong. The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! View quote
Blaise Pascal
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. View quote
Blaise Pascal