Uncertain Times Quotes

• The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Future, Heart, Creativity

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• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  Dan Millman

  Faith, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.55, H J Kramer

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• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, October

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• In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

  Robert Fripp

  Love Is, Creative, Despair

  "Robert Fripp's Diary". Robert Fripp, DGMlive.com, May 27, 2010.

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• In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

  Sheila Walsh

  Promise, Stakes, Unchanging

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• Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

  George W. Bush

  Economy, Certainty, Bushism

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• These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Selfish, Past

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• 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

  Change, Happiness, Growth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Mean, Doe, Franciscans

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• Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

  Jamais Cascio

  Mean, Goal, Political

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• At quite uncertain times and places,
  The atoms left their heavenly path,
  And by fortuitous embraces,
  Engendered all that being hath.
  And though they seem to cling together,
  And form 'associations' here,
  Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether,
  And through the depths of space career.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Careers, Space

  James Clerk Maxwell, “Molecular Evolution”

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• I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.

  Steve Case

  Education, Art, Thinking

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• We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.

  Jeff Corwin

  Earth, Uncertain

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• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Dad, Real, Rocks

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  Lena Dunham

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.

  Alex Jones

  Integrity, Organization, Media

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