Uncertain Quotes

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

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.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

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.

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

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.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

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.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

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.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.