He took his hands off the oars and pulled in the mooring rope. If I make a couple of loops, he thought, I can strap the axe on to my back.
He had a mental picture of what could happen to a man who plunged into the cauldron below a waterfall with a sharp piece of metal attached to his body.
GOOD MORNING.
Vimes blinked. A tall dark robed figure was now sitting in the boat.
'Are you Death?'
IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE.
'I'm going to die?'
POSSIBLY.
'Possibly? You turn up when people are possibly going to die?'
OH, YES. IT'S QUITE THE NEW THING. IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE.
'What's that?'
I'M NOT SURE.
'That's very helpful.
Mots clés death uncertainty
There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.
Aniruddha SastikarMots clés life difference uncertainty decision line between yes no indecisivness lameness
When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can't really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs
Nate SilverMots clés prediction uncertainty forecasting
I'd always thought that the earth on which I stood was a solid object that would last forever. Or rather, I'd never thought about such a thing at all. I'd simply taken it for granted.
Haruki MurakamiMots clés uncertainty
The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you're immortal...or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty trumps omniscience, for a knower can only ever know what it knows, never what it doesn't.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Mots clés life knowledge god time death uncertainty immortality
We react to fear when we are uncertain of the outcome, we respond to fear when we don't care about the outcome.
A. DragonbloodMots clés fear uncertainty outcome
-Well, that’s actually quite understandable, Deepak gently returned, -there are a lot of things people fear, yet really the only thing people have any reason to fear is uncertainty. Of course, the biggest uncertainty is what happens to us after this life, which is why we fear death so much. But even death is rather pointless to worry about, it will happen to each and every one of us, whether we care for it or not, all we can do is try to accept it as gracefully as possible.
-This is why, living day to day, my greatest uncertainty hasn’t been about death, but whether you will love me by returning all of my affection. I can’t think of anything I would find more fearful or disturbing than if you were to refuse my feelings or worse if you were to fall in love with someone else before you had a chance to love me.
Mots clés fear life love death uncertainty
Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love; but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation.
M.F. MoonzajerMots clés reality dreams hesitation believe uncertainty devote
I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.
AesopMots clés ambiguity uncertainty vagueness
Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.
Elizabeth CraftMots clés lost dream uncertainty
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