#uncertain

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#credit #deciding #person #task #trust

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#appeal #become #domestic #dubious #gained

Uncertainty's not good for anybody. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#good #uncertainty

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6 ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#uncertainty

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#phonetics #scheme #stiff #thing #uncertain

She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending. ↗

— Dorothy Garlock

#uncertainty-of-relationship #relationship

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

#anxiety #been #calamity #course #depressed

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#bleak #everything #feel #feels #i

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

— Wynton Marsalis

#down #education #first-class #future #generation