uncertainty

See Also: FATE

1. Accidental as life —Lord Shaftesbury
2. I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do but I don’t know where to begin —Stephen Bayne

   Mr. Bayne’s comment was made in 1986 upon assuming a newly created job.

3. Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn’t wash his hands, he is called

   dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water —Madagascan proverb Modern day psychologists have adopted this as a neurosis and labeled it a “double bind.”

4. Indecision sent me forward and back, as if I were propelled by a piston in my back —Joan Hess
5. Indecisive as a fellow who pulls back one leg as he moves forward with the other —Anon

   Probably inspired by this Arabic proverb: “He advances one leg and draws back the other.”

6. Like children with a piece of ice … neither able to hold it nor willing to let it go —Plutarch
7. Not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don’t care much about kittens —Raymond Chandler
8. An obscure doubt brushed her, like a dove that wavers to a perch and is gone again without lighting —Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
9. (He’d become about as) predictable as a Chinese earthquake —Joseph Wambaugh
10. Predictable as a Tijuana dog race —Joseph Wambaugh
11. Swing [uncertainly] like a hammock in the breeze —Anon
12. Tentative as first taste of hot soup —Anon
13. Tentative as a schoolgirl —Richard Ford
14. Uncertain as the glory of an April day —William Shakespeare
15. Uncertain … like a golf ball hit by a new golfer, continually getting close to the hole-in-one, but only getting into it by a fluke —Anon
16. Uncertainty … as vertiginous as a lift descending down a bottomless shaft —Graham Masterton
17. Up in the air, like jugglers in a freeze-frame —John Updike