Uncertain Quotes

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"I`m part of the mushball middle. I consider `confused` the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100 percent positive all the time - even when they`re wrong." (interview with Marla Williams, Seattle Times, March 11, 1996)

- Al Franken

(on the music industry) It occurs to me that music, with the possible exception of riding a bull, is the most uncertain way to make a living I know. In either case you can get bucked off, thrown, stepped on, trampled--if you get on at all. At best, it is a short and bumpy ride.

- Gene Autry

I`m sure it`s not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, `cos it`s quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

- Ewan McGregor

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

- Elia Kazan

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

- Gavin Newsom

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

- Winston Churchill

Increases in health and liability insurance costs, utility expenses, and garbage hauling fees were factored, ... Our entire nation faces increased fuel costs, which will remain uncertain. We will take strong measures to harness these costs through a thorough review of cost efficiency in every department and every division.

- David Roberts

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

- Wynton Marsalis

While consumer demand for high mileage vehicles has grown dramatically in the past few years -- with increasing interest in hybrids -- the best way to build cars that get over 100 mpg is still uncertain. We expect to see some new, exciting technologies demonstrated in the 2006 High Mileage Vehicle Challenge.

- James Dunn

Radio faces an uncertain future, but doom is not around the corner. It`s just over the horizon.

- Michael Harrison

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

- Gordon Smith

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

- Jonathan Dimbleby

(Medicine is) a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

- Adam Wainwright

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

- Al Ver

I think what`s known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

- Alan Loewenstein

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

- Alberto Lozano

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.

- Alex Albany

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

- Alex Morrison

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.

- Alexander Downer

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

- Alison Parken

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

- Allen Jackson

Well, it`s still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I`ll see how I can contribute. But I`m sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That`s where my passion is.

- Allyn Lord

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don`t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone`s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

- Amy Beaner

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

- Ana Navarro

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!

- Andrae Hernandez

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

- Andreas Schaefer

I am uncertain if race was a factor in Mr. Dilks` assault on me in August and his subsequent threats, but I can assure you that I feel my safety has been severely threatened.

- Andy DiSabato

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath

- Andy Jacobs

While our earnings for the quarter and the six months were essentially flat year over year, we have seen positive developments since the first quarter and believe that our fundamental strengths, our exceptional asset base and our experienced management team will serve us well as we continue to move forward in an uncertain environment,

- Ann DiPierro

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

- Anna Julia Cooper

On most of our campuses this is a very scary moment. For us as a group, it`s a time at which the answers are uncertain, but no generation will have the opportunity we have to put our mark on the look of education in the future.

- Anne Cribbs

The trucking industry continues to face a significant shortage of qualified drivers. If this population fails to grow, the freight transportation market faces a more uncertain future.

- Anne Lamott

In spite of the very positive trends we have experienced in the second quarter and owing to the uncertain economic conditions with which we are confronted, our earnings guidance for the year-end remains unchanged,

- Ashley Davies

We think everybody is anxious and uncertain. We want to minimize uncertainty, ... We want to make sure people aren`t reacting based on rumor. We want to learn from people what they need to know.

- Barb Graff

We`re eager to retail the cars because we`re uncertain from week to week what they`re worth.

- Barbara Jacobs

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves

- Willa Sibert Cather