Uncertain Quotes
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.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.
Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.
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.
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.
It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
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 only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.
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.
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.
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.
I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.
Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.
When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
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.
