Top 100 Uncertain Quotes
#1. No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.
Pat Robertson
#2. One the grand paradoxes of existence and nonexistence is the uncertainty of uncertainty. Even uncertainty can be uncertain. However, can you be certain of such uncertainty?
Lionel Suggs
#3. Live life for the momentr becuase everything else is uncertain
Louis Tomlinson
#4. He had said she was provocative; so she was, she needed to prove she was there to be seen; but the proof always, contradictorily, drove her to further uncertain agony of guilt and self-distaste.
A.S. Byatt
#5. Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
Agatha Christie
#6. Predestination ... and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only ... for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23
Steven J. Lawson
#7. The reality is that tomorrow is most certainly uncertain and no matter how many expectations we form, tomorrow will come, tomorrow will go and it will all be what it will be.
Lori Deschene
#8. Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
Bertrand Russell
#9. We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren Buffett
#10. In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
Pat Summitt
#11. Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a distinct possibility.
Kelly Moran
#12. Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.
Clive Barker
#13. They both sat on the pavement and watched with a certain unease as huge children bounced heavily along the sand and wild horses thundered through the sky taking fresh supplies of reinforced railings to the Uncertain Areas.
Douglas Adams
#14. Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
Livy
#15. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time ... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
Oswald Chambers
#16. 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.
Ann Brashares
#17. I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.
August Wilson
#18. It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.
Joshua Ferris
#19. Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
#20. The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
David Lloyd-Jones
#21. If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.
Joel M. McMains
#22. I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
Al Franken
#23. Outcome is uncertain in every fight... So in any position don't lose hope that you win.
Osyp Nazaruk
#24. Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#25. Nick turned out to be a shy boy, uncertain in groups and in new situations, but also very brave, determined to overcome his fear. - Will, as a parent describing his son
Lisa Goldstein
#26. I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.
Roger Ebert
#27. The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.
M. Scott Peck
#28. Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
Alister E. McGrath
#29. The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
Garrett Hardin
#30. She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.
Dan Brown
#31. No one knows what the future holds, and loving something means you're willing to face an uncertain future together. That you're better together than apart.
Joanna Shupe
#32. The future is uncertain ... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
Ilya Prigogine
#33. Love's Course
A boatman crossing Yura Strait
Has lost his rudder, and the boat
Is drifting with uncertain fate,
Like love's course, indeterminate.
Sone No Yoshitada
#34. Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.
Terence Cooke
#35. All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
John Adams
#36. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.
Larry Eskridge
#37. The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
Abbas Kiarostami
#39. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
Walter Hagen
#40. Viewing teaching as a moral endeavor filled with uncertain and inevitable dilemmas positions the teacher always as an inquirer.
Celia Oyler
#41. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.
Orit Gadiesh
#42. Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.
Evan Meekins
#44. Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#45. The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
Adam Davidson
#46. And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#47. Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
George Gilder
#48. Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
John Arbuthnot
#49. I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.
Ewan McGregor
#51. The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
Bruce Lee
#52. Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Etty Hillesum
#53. 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
#54. The night seems more temporary than the day, especially to lovers, and it also seems more uncertain. In this way it sums up our lives, which are uncertain and temporary. We forget about that in the day. In the day we go on for ever.
Jeanette Winterson
#55. The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen.
Dean Karnazes
#56. Moses Never Closes was something folks counted on. It was a certain place in an uncertain world. Folks wanted it to stay the way it was, because once you change one part of a thing, all the other parts begin to shift, and pretty soon, you just don't know what's what anymore.
Jenny Wingfield
#57. There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
Scotty Bowman
#58. My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.
R. YS Perez
#59. For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
Christopher Morley
#60. 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
#61. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Tahereh Mafi
#62. Making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house,
Niall Ferguson
#63. Do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are] ... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
George Washington
#64. The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.
John Assaraf
#65. I didn't say a word but stared
At Derek, still a little hazed.
He stared back, uncertain, scared,
Still unbelieving and amazed.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#66. I am uncertain whether I took my first steps on clay soil or sand, but I know I have long wondered if home is the place from which we come or the place we are headed.
Christie Purifoy
#67. Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#68. The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.
Agatha Christie
#69. Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
Wynton Marsalis
#70. That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
Percival Lowell
#71. The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
Deepak Chopra
#72. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!
Frank Herbert
#73. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris
D.G. Novak
#74. Doubt we were very foolish, but danger seemed to be all round, and there was nobody we knew to trust in, and all was strange and uncertain. The fresh air that had come in through the open door made it easier to breathe, but the rushing sound overhead grew louder, and as I looked
Anna Sewell
#75. It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.
Italo Calvino
#76. There may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#78. Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.
Billy Graham
#79. Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
Mark Twain
#80. That was how you got to be a power in the land, he thought. You never cared a toss about whatever anyone else thought and you were never, ever, uncertain about anything.
Terry Pratchett
#81. For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots - the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.
Os Guinness
#82. The next time you face something that is unexpected, unwanted and uncertain ... consider that it just might be a gift.
Stacy Kramer
#83. Best to take one day at a time in this uncertain life and be grateful for those days that treat you well.
C.S. Quinn
#84. If the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future,
Alan Lightman
#85. I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.
Jose Rizal
#86. No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
Michel De Montaigne
#87. When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.
Subroto Bagchi
#88. I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
Freeman Dyson
#89. Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
Craig Groeschel
#90. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Milarepa
#91. She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.
Jeffery Deaver
#92. Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.
Charlotte Beers
#93. Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for.
Leonard Gardner
#94. Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
Peter Gabriel
#95. The skies we slept under were too uncertain for forecasts. They came and went on the moody gusts of the Atlantic, bringing half a dozen weathers in an afternoon and playing all four movements of a wind symphony, allegro, andante, scherzo and adagio on the broken backs of white waves.
Niall Williams
#96. There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
Malcolm Lowry
#97. Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
Mitch Kapor
#98. Knowledge gives you attitude and carriage which IS everything! A woman who knows and feels she is sexy projects sexy and classy. If you are uncertain it can show. Make a list of those things you feel uncertain about and go to work on getting the knowledge to cross them off your list
JoAnna Nicholson
#99. Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
Gaby Hoffmann
#100. Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
Arthur Eddington
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