Uncertain Quotes

• Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Live Life, One Direction, Live In The Moment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Jewels, Risk, Important

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• We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

  John W. Snow

  Alaska, Important, Middle East

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

  Emma Goldman

  Character, Ideas, Intellectual

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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

  George Crumb

  Confused, Swag, Periods

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• 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, Steps, Injury

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.27

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• 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

  Men, Earth, Birth

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• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Weather, People, Curiosity

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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

  Jurgen Habermas

  Embarrassing, Danger, Situation

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• 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!

  Robert Peel

  Government, Public Opinion, Reform

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• 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

  Long, Wavelength, Position

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

  John Jewel

  Philosophy, Dark, Astrology

  John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.323

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• What works in the real world is cooperation.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, World, Cooperation

  Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Way, Physics, Should

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• 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.

  Sean Lennon

  Air, Transformation, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Thinking, Sound, Moments

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• To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  Richard Whately

  Order, Erring, Imperfect

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.76

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• Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Confidence, Class, Long

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• The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

  Helen Dunmore

  Men, Poet

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• I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Neurology, Stills

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• The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

  Elias Canetti

  Mad, Effort, Survival

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Fragility, World, Kind

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• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Expectations, Joy, Risk

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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