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  • Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. -- Margaret Mead
  • The future is no more uncertain than the present. -- Walt Whitman
  • If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. -- Paul Cezanne
  • True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. -- Winston Churchill
  • Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. -- Hugh Mackay
  • Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. -- Democritus
  • Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. -- Jane Addams
  • 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
  • You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. -- Warren Buffett
  • There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. -- Scotty Bowman
  • Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain. -- Louis Tomlinson
  • The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. -- Thomas Edward Brown
  • Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. -- Warren Buffett
  • The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. -- Elia Kazan
  • Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! -- Joseph Addison
  • To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
  • The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. -- Hannah Arendt
  • I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. -- Hannes Alfven
  • The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. -- George Saintsbury
  • Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. -- Willa Cather
  • Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. -- John Dryden
  • Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair. -- John Denham
  • Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. -- Cheryl Strayed
  • "Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." -- Werner Heisenberg
  • I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade -- W. H. Auden
  • O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! -- Walter Scott
  • I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives The unmentiona -- W. H. Auden
  • Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain! -- Louis Tomlinson
  • That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. -- Anatole France
  • The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. -- Theodore Hesburgh
  • The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. -- Elias Canetti
  • Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. -- James Russell Lowell
  • 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. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. -- Garry Kasparov
  • We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. -- Sean Lennon
  • Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts. -- Dalai Lama
  • I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. -- Sylvia Kristel
  • 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. -- William J. Clinton
  • A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
  • 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
  • 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
  • People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence. -- Jack Canfield
  • Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Science is uncertain. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. -- Theodore Hesburgh
  • Life is uncertain; death is certain. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Human science is an uncertain guess. -- Matt Prior
  • The optimist regards the future as uncertain. -- Eugene Wigner
  • Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain. -- Robert Greene
  • She was "a woman of uncertain age. -- Marcel Proust
  • Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time. -- Robert Greene
  • It is not certain that everything is uncertain. -- Blaise Pascal
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  • I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax... -- Dennis Ritchie
  • There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness -- Fernando Pessoa
  • I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie. -- Hal Hartley
  • of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ... -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact. -- Sara Coleridge
  • The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it. -- Suresh Raina
  • All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. -- Daniel Webster
  • The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. -- Thomas Edward Brown
  • The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain. -- Charles F. Glassman
  • The future is uncertain but the end is always near. -- Jim Morrison
  • I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain -- Clifford Geertz
  • Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth. -- Bertrand Russell
  • I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. -- Erich Fromm
  • I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. -- George Crumb
  • What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! -- Elizabeth Bibesco
  • Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. -- Plautus
  • The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. -- Jennifer Niven
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  • Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one. -- Rupert Sheldrake
  • All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. -- Hippocrates
  • As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. -- Walter Scott
  • Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd. -- Livy
  • How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast! -- Teresa of Avila
  • Never be too confident or doubtful when everything is uncertain in life. -- VEERA PRATAP DESU
  • Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it. -- Deanna Raybourn
  • Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. -- Al Purdy
  • Never be too confident or ndomdoubtful when everything is uncertain in this world. -- VEERA PRATAP DESU
  • When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. -- Mohsin Hamid
  • Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. -- George W. Bush
  • One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. -- Doris Lessing
  • Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. -- Aldrich Ames
  • No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • ... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain. -- Pat Robertson
  • All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured. -- Tove Jansson
  • It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason. -- Steven Tyler
  • Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain. -- Terence Cooke
  • Life is uncertain.Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. -- Charles Dudley Warner
  • If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer -- Ajahn Chah
  • There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky! -- Verne Lundquist
  • Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. -- Brian Herbert
  • Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. -- Gavin Newsom
  • But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear -- Gavin Newsom
  • In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent. -- Irena Chalmers
  • She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. -- E. M. Forster
  • We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth. -- Jeff Corwin
  • Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God. -- Ann Voskamp
  • Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become. -- A. J. P. Taylor
  • The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. -- Ilya Prigogine
  • The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... -- Paul Gauguin
  • Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis) -- Timothy Egan
  • Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. -- Socrates
  • Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved. -- Franz Beckenbauer
  • Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. -- Mark Twain
  • Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy. -- Tim Westergren
  • It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain. -- Hans Kung
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