#uncertain

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. ↗

— Al Purdy

#always #certain #certain age #how #other

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#belief #could #disappeared #fixed #focused

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

— Winston Churchill

#conflicting #evaluation #genius #hazardous #information

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#danger #essence #terrorism #uncertainty

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#certain time #chance #demanded #every #happiness

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#humility #just #learn #sign #uncertainty

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

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

— Anatole France

#events #fears #future #hopes #man

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#uncertainty #sisters