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"We were very, very frightened. I had to sit down and take stock of my life and see if I had a life outside the band, because I was questioning if there was even a future for Metallica. That was a scary thought; when you`ve been in a band for as long as we have, you take for granted that it`s always going to be there." (recalling the uncertainty of Metallica`s future, after Jason Newsted left the band and James Hetfield entered rehab)

- Kirk Hammett

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

- Charlie Sheen

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

Our characters never know who or what they will be dealing with on any given case. They live a life of uncertainty and not a little fear.

- Jensen Ackles

I was not really fond of marriage, of contracts,but when everything became so evident with Karine, all fears and uncertainty disappeared. I only wanted to make her happy. When it was time to arrange everything for the wedding, I was in Africa in a reservation surrounded by snakes and lions, and I was stressed thinking about Karine, who had to face it all alone. She came for a while over there with Roxane, and it was wonderful.

- Vincent Perez

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

- George W. Bush

This is still a dangerous world. It`s a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

- George W. Bush

Over the next two or three weeks, there will be uncertainty associated with (market) volatility. But it will be resolved,

- David Brady

introduces uncertainty into both the planning and execution of terrorist attacks.

- David Cohen

With so much uncertainty about the eventual positioning/future of Liz Claiborne`s department store partners (former May Department Stores door closures, potential spin-offs of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, repositioning of Sears), we would not be surprised to see Liz Claiborne management take a cautious approach to 2006 guidance.

- Elizabeth Montgomery

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

- Gavin Newsom

When there`s uncertainty they always think there`s another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

- Kenneth Lay

Investors don`t like uncertainty.

- Kenneth Lay

I am not willing for the uncertainty to push it beyond that.

- Mike Williams

If you don`t think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.

- Ron Silver

There`s a lot of anxiety. There`s uncertainty about what`s going to happen, what`s going on. It`s devastating because of what happened to the city, what happened in Mississippi and other places. . . . I watched. I tried to keep up with it and see what`s going on. . . . Unfortunately, you have to expect the worst. Many of the worst things that could have happened, they happened.

- Deuce McAllister

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

- Arianna Huffington

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don`t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

- Condoleezza Rice

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

- Richard Curtis

Clearly there are some fears about what exactly the future holds for Iran. The uncertainty there is probably having some sort of bearing and perhaps being used as a catalyst or rationale for profit taking after the very strong run we`ve seen.

- Alex Scott

Both stocks are still clouded by this uncertainty over China`s plan to change telecom service charges.

- David Williamson

Both stocks are still clouded by this uncertainty over China`s plan to change telecom service charges,

- David Williamson

The December value of the LEI injects uncertainty about the middle of 2006.

- Paul Mason

We`d prefer to wait until the end of basketball season and then rip the floor up, but we have a short window to get it ready because we`re probably going to have to have graduation in the gym again this spring. There`s so much uncertainty with FEMA funding that when we`re told to move, we`re going to move as quickly as we can to get FEMA to pay 100 percent of the cost.

- Mike Davis

There are multiple factors influencing bond prices right now, not the least of which is the uncertainty about what the Fed is going to do going forward.

- Larry Jones

The question is whether companies will be reporting better numbers or negative numbers over the next week, ... Many investors are shying away as a result of the uncertainty.

- George Rodriguez

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

- Jacob Bronowski

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

- David Mallet

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

- William Osler

In my mind, maybe it was bit of uncertainty about what was going to happen although eventually, of course, I did get into management.

- Peter Shilton

By addressing the systemic problems of the past, we will reduce uncertainty, litigation and conflict,

- Carole Taylor

The markets don`t like instability and they don`t like uncertainty.

- Peter Mandelson

I`ve been managed well by Wasps and by England, so I`m in good shape, fresh in body and mind. There can be no excuses for me. I`ve just kept on trying to use every little opportunity to put my case forward. I`ve worked hard, kept my head down and this has come as a pleasant surprise. It`s going to take a monumental effort to win in Paris. You never know what you`re going to get. It`s the uncertainty. We`ve got to go there with the mentality that France are going to play the best game of their lives. That`s the only way to ensure that your head is right.

- Matt Dawson

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

- A. Townsend Peterson

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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

- Ajibike Akinkoye

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

- Al Hutchinson

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

- Albert Lin

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

- Alex Munter

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

- Alexander Hungate

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

- Alexander Nikonov

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world`s strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

- Alice McGrew

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

- Alicia Townsend

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

- Allen Jackson

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

- Alun Michael

I`m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

- Amanda Bird

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

- Andreu Guarneri

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

- Andrew Arrington

We made a business decision to settle this matter, without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, to enable our firm to move forward without the uncertainty and distraction of costly and protracted litigation in Arizona,

- Andy Brunner