Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tove Jansson

All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

Jack Straw

In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.

Philip Smith

It has not only been an uncertain day but the whole week has been uncertain.

Elia Kazan

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

Stephane Dion

It would take years with a really uncertain outcome,

Ann Brashares

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.

Edward Witten

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

George W. Bush

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

Troy Polamalu

I wouldn't anticipate him coming in and doing what we like to do: run, run, run, run, run. But I think he's going to use a West Coast-slash-run-and-shoot-type offense. That's what I would expect.

David Kudla

I think investors anticipate that the earns will not be as bad as expected.

Herman Edwards

He wants to play. He just wants to make sure he's OK, and I can understand that. That's something you don't deal with lightly. I anticipate he'll be back. I'd say it's 50-50.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day. He is sitting in a chair reading his newspapers and we continue to anticipate a Thursday discharge.

Marc Cabi

Handsets continue to plague Ericsson. A manufacturing plant fire at a key LCD supplier for Ericsson's high-end handsets limited revenue growth and severely impacted profitability ... We anticipate a further weakening situation in September before incremental improvement in the December quarter.

Matt Holliday

It hit a pole at the bottom of the fence and shot toward center field. You can't anticipate anything like that happening.

Michael Chertoff

What I said was not that we didn't anticipate that there's a possibility the levees will break. What I said was, in this storm, what happened is, the storm passed and passed without the levees breaking on Monday. Tuesday morning, I opened newspapers and saw headlines that said 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet,' which surprised people. What surprised them was that the levee broke overnight and the next day and, in fact, collapsed. That was a surprise.

Debra Pegram

I didn't anticipate them playing us man, I really didn't. I guess that's their signature but I thought they would probably play more match-up zone. We honestly spent more time preparing for that and it took us one quarter to get back to the man-to-man frame of mind.

Shari Steele

I don't anticipate that we're going to have the same kind of issues, which had a lot more to do with lobbying and Washington politics and compromising principles. I don't see any of that happening.

Jason Robert Brown

I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.

Li Yang

As are many Chinese, I am very ambivalent about this decision,

Thomas Friedman

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Sara Sheridan

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

Bob Fosse

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.