Uncertain Outcome Quotes

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

The future is unpredictable.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

If you break a promise, the outcome is uncertain and the number of people affected is small. But if you refuse to make a promise, the result is certain and produces immediate anger in a larger number of voters..

My dad, he can cook, but he can't cook: it's sort of like 50/50.

What is life, but one long risk?

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

You either end up on a good, fun show that's successful, or you have that question mark in your future, and you know that you don't know what's going to happen, which is exciting.

There was obviously never any help from the Russians. I don't even know what the Russians would have done.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

I am an unpredictable journey.

Time to toss the dice

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

All of life is a wager

They smote and stood, who held the hope / of nations on that slippery slope

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.