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

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.
Kate Chopin

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

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

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

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.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

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

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert

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

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.
Matthew Brady

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

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

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
Jonathan Dimbleby

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
Thomas Edward Brown

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.
Peter D. Mitchell

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

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

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

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