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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. -- Charlotte Bronte
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. -- Gary Ross
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. -- Mohsin Hamid
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. -- Frank Herbert
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. AnzaldÃºa
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. -- Michael J. Fox
The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb. -- Richard Hofstadter
Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face -- Phil Harding
Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. -- Barack Obama
Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future. -- Daniel Gordis
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. -- Frank Herbert
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
Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis. -- Oscar Arias
Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in. -- Gillian Jacobs
The future is no more uncertain than the present. -- Walt Whitman
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. -- Wynton Marsalis
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. -- Anatole France
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. -- Julia Gillard
I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. -- John Grisham
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
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
I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future. -- Brad Schneider
We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life. -- Des Browne
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are. -- Taylor Mali
The optimist regards the future as uncertain. -- Eugene Wigner
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. -- Jim Morrison
The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it. -- Suresh Raina
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. -- Jennifer Niven
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. -- Brian Herbert
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. -- Ilya Prigogine
We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth. -- Jeff Corwin
Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry. -- Albert Einstein
Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain. -- Bryant McGill
Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain. -- Bryant McGill
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. -- Lord Dunsany
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. -- Marcus Aurelius
Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody. -- Woody Allen
History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy. -- David Dreman
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it. -- Jim Valvano
If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. -- Jed Rubenfeld

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