Uncertain Quotes - page 3

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. (Peter D. Mitchell)
Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product. View quote
Ann Brashares
Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain! View quote
Louis Tomlinson
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. View quote
Aldrich Ames
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. View quote
Al Purdy
But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. View quote
Gavin Newsom
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. View quote
George Crumb
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. View quote
Helen Dunmore
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. View quote
John Jewel
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? (Jamais Cascio)
My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain. View quote
Phyllis George
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. View quote
Steve Case
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. View quote
Scotty Bowman
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. View quote
Bill Clinton
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed. View quote
Howard Zinn
If for example I had some idea, which as it turned out would be quite wrong, was going off of the tangent, Watson would tell me in no uncertain terms this was nonsense, and vice-versa. If he would have some idea I didn't like, and I would say so, this would shake his thinking about, and draw him back again. And in fact it is one of the requirements for collaborations of this sort, is you must be perfectly candid, one might almost say rude, to the person you're working with. It's useless working with somebody who is either much too junior than yourself or much too senior because then politeness creeps in. And this is the end of all real collaboration in science. View quote
Francis Crick
Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying. View quote
Thomas Paine
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. (Charlotte Brontë)
Most of all, faith brings recognition that our quest never leads us to certainty. We are always uncertain, always in doubt that our way is God's way. That self-doubt makes it possible to be reconciled to one another. It is faith that makes the reconciling work of politics possible. View quote
John Danforth
People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious. View quote
Blaise Pascal
In reading this author [ Montaigne ] and comparing him with Epictetus, I have found that they are assuredly the two greatest defenders of the two most celebrated sects of the world, and the only ones conformable to reason, since we can only follow one of these two roads, namely: either that there is a God, and then we place in him the sovereign good; or that he is uncertain, and that then the true good is also uncertain, since he is incapable of it. View quote
Blaise Pascal