Uncertainty

“He trusts him where he cannot trace him.”

“I hardly ever see my paintings around. I don’t have the faintest idea where half of my life’s work is.”

“I love the unexpected.”

“shikva-e-ābla abhī se 'mīr' / hai piyāre hanūz dillī duur”

“In war, I never knew anything beyond what I could see and hear.”

“Talk to me again in 10 years, I can give you a more precise answer.”

“Nag-iisip din ako, kung babalik ako, anong mangyayari sa akin?”

“One thing that one can be certain of is that it will be very surprising.”

“So long as that man remains on the Coast no disruptions of any serious nature would ever occur, but as soon as his successor comes there will be some great troubles.”

“I now know that it had not.”

“Il nostro è un tempo di incertezze, sconnessioni e frammenti.”

“My poetry begins for me where certainty ends.”

“No-one fully understood the risks which were being taken.”

“We cannot tell in advance which research will have an impact. It must all be encouraged for its own sake.”

“Every step and every movement of the multitude... are made with equal blindness to the future.”

“To był bardzo dziwny człowiek.”

“In a confused world, China should be clear about its direction, reform and opening-up.”

“I did not know that this would one day turn into a profession for me.”