Uncertain Quotes

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Hugh Mackay

Life, Nothing, Perfect

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

True, Genius, Capacity

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

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

Success, Nothing, Difficult

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

Time, Forward, Live

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

Time, Mean, Talk

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman

Future, Present

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

Love, Pain, Live

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead

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

Happiness, Time, May

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

Work, Politics, Good

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.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Control, Everyone, Means

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus

Life, Success, Children

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

Strong, Isolation, Tempers

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

Light, Reputation, Looks

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France

Future, Nor, Events

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

Parents, Brain, Enough

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

Single, Dark, Sometimes

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

Economy, Referring

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

Life, Good, Until

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

Revolution, Become, Matter

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
Lena Dunham

Time, Positive, Playing

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

Play, Problem, Rules

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

Future, Risk, Economic

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz

War, False, Reports

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

Liberty, Others, Sure

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

Change, Future, Put

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

Good, Down, Put

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

Difficult, Meet, Remains

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Elia Kazan

Cannot, Anticipate, Ambivalent

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