Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . . and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered...

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it...

A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal’s realm. Can’t you feel it? The keep is doomed, don’t you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There...

One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of...

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It’s always about the past or the future. People can’t agree on the details of what has happened or is going...

Overlying everything, you’ve got the election and there’s a lot of uncertainty.

I have always hated lies; my own and everyone else’s.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

…the ratings agencies’ problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation.

There’s still a lot of uncertainty.

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters...

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Heralds don’t sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

You’d think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn’t. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is....

A lot of the stories you read make it sound like there’s uncertainty. There’s not uncertainty.

As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the last seven days. For the first time since I had known him, Sherlock...

And of course I didn’t know who would marry me now that I’d been where I had been. I didn’t know at all.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all...

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect.

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying...

these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.

Facing the fog of uncertainty, the Fed should see the benefits of pausing on September 20,

Risk means ‘shit happens’ or ‘good luck

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to,...

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those...

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.

A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you’ll answer the question, if ever it’s asked.

Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as...

The unknown…the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought…The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

There exists a great uncertainty that comes with life. It is like a tree, its roots formed below the surface, its body penetrating a layer of top soil, its roots spreading outward, and affecting the...

And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change,...

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

…surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?…

Love’s CourseA boatman crossing Yura StraitHas lost his rudder, and the boatIs drifting with uncertain fate,Like love’s course, indeterminate.

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what...