#certainty

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#past #uncertainty #uncertainty

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#others #self-doubt #uncertainty #value #self-determination

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

— Alice Hoffman

#uncertainty #weather #love

Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#philosophy #uncertainty #life

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#lawyer #power #uncertainty

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. ↗

— Robert Burns

#sure #sure thing #thing #uncertainty

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#such #taxes #times #uncertainty #you

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#certainty #condition #doubt #pleasant

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#anything #become #certainty #fortune #make

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#been #business #deal #difficult #finished