#certainty

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6 ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#uncertainty

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#charge #part #process #taking #uncertainty

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#certainty #considerations #further #give #hope

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#like #markets #uncertainty

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #breaks #businesses #certainty #confidence

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#battles #certain #certainty #how #many

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#come #down #energy #long #political

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#certainty #even #far #foresee #than