A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.
Jurgen Habermas

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

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

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

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

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright

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

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

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
Max von Laue

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.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
George Crumb

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier

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

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.
Robert Jay Lifton

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

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.
Richard Francis Burton

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

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