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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.


Alphonse Karr

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FERNANDO CORMENZANA If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and ...
JIM CARREY Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty.
FAUSTO BERTINOTTI Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your...
GENNIFER CHOLDENKO The only regret I have is the leave of absence. It puts that (uncertainty) of if I'll have a job. I ...
TONY SPENCER You don't know how to live. You live.
MARTY RUBIN You just can't play around with the uncertainty at the moment.
PETER ADAMS Our imaginary monsters scare us the most....jh
JIMBO HENDERSON What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?
MARTY RUBIN I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.
WILLIAM GOLDING when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our li...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obam...
JOHN KASICH We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're pl...
CARLOS GHOSN All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
DAVE DAVIES Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
CLAUDE SHANNON Uncertainty is the mother of dependence
LUIS ALBERTO ICAZA The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what come...
URSULA K. LEGUIN The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what come...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
OSCAR WILDE The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what come...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called myst...
MARK BATTERSON The major trend in the market over the last couple of weeks has been uncertainty. Uncertainty about ...
FRANCIS GANNON For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ...
JANET BEIZER The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what co...
URSULA K. LEGUIN The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDE Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the H...
EDWARD WITTEN People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
LIONEL SUGGS The uncertainty is petrol prices,
STEVEN WRIGHT Certainly there's a view that there's too much political uncertainty around the topic, but that kind...
DVAI GHOSE You have this uncertainty. People will not contribute money in times of uncertainty.
DARRYL PAULSON Certainty is found in the cloud of uncertainty
CHANDAN KUMAR DE The nomination process did not go well and the uncertainty persists, causing negative reactions at t...
HALUK BURUMCEKCI The takeover is creating uncertainty for an industry which at the moment is working well in Spain. T...
JOSE MONTILLA Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN FINLEY There is a lot of uncertainty on the Coast.
BEVERLY BRAHAN It lifts the cloud of uncertainty.
BARBARA COOMBS LEE To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.
GARY RUDZ Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN HUSTON FINLEY In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.
ROBERT LEVINE When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline.
HIROSHI ARANO Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI When you let go the past & makes your present a happening moment, surely in the process you ensure h...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you cal...
GRAHAM MCNEILL There is a degree of uncertainty, yes.
JULIAN ROBERTS There is a high degree of uncertainty
JEFF BERG Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
JACOB BRONOWSKI My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty an...
JULIAN BAGGINI The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
JEREMY BENTHAM The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law
JEREMY BENTHAM Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
BRENE BROWN It seems to me sad when ... you give a platform to the charlatans. It is doing great damage to the s...
STEPHEN LEWIS There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never en...
PAULA HAWKINS If u can experience freedom when there is lot of uncertainty , then that is "REAL FREEDOM"
SAJI SAM VARGHESE The harsh reality of reduced budgets and the uncertainty of the economic and geopolitical climate ar...
JOE TUCCI Karr makes a big difference for us because he gives us a consistent jump shooter out there. And the ...
JAMES CARTER We identified (global warming) as a big source of uncertainty. There's a lack of data and a lot of u...
BRIAN MURRAY The condition of uncertainty drives the wheel of development
CHANDAN KUMAR DE I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live n...
RICHARD FEYNMAN The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.
DAVID LEVITHAN Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredo...
R. I. FITZHENRY My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia s...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant h...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
DOUGLAS ADAMS An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
DJUNA BARNES This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaki...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtak...
WILLIAM CONGREVE When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat.,...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only secu...
JOHN ALLEN PAULOS I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
JORGE LUIS BORGES This uncertainty about what Microsoft is going to do with the cash has been hanging over the stock f...
ADAM ADELMAN There were signs many institutional investors sold off their tech stocks given uncertainty about the...
MORRIS CHEN Another word for uncertainty is opportunity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As far as the political situation is concerned, I think we've got uncertainty that's going to last f...
ANDREW STOTZ The whole thing about the form-based codes that developers like is it removes the uncertainty, ... I...
BARBARA GREEN The whole thing about the form-based codes that developers like is it removes the uncertainty, ... I...
BARBARA GREEN The intensifying competitive landscape from larger, better- funded competitors creates some uncertai...
ANTHONY NOTO I don't think anything they've done is wrong but it adds to the uncertainty.
ANGELA KOHLER There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing
ROBERT BURNS It's because of the uncertainty (over gas prices).
BO BREWER They're in transit they don't know how long they're going to be in the apartments they're in. The un...
TOM O'BRIEN It is calm now but this is superficial and deceptive. There is a lot of uncertainty ... There is a n...
BEYENE PETROS There's a significant amount of uncertainty about what's going to happen with the various tax provis...
DONALD MARRON He helped me deal with the uncertainty,
DON BAYLOR I know uncertainty about exposure is troubling.
DOROTHY TEETER We've been through a couple of quarters with a lot of uncertainty around the subscriber numbers, so ...
DENNIS KAVELMAN I can remember, even on up to the job I have now, some fair degree of uncertainty about whether I wa...
DAVID BONDY We have to be prepared for uncertainty after the announcement of the candidates,
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