Uncertain

Famous quotes containing the word uncertain:

    For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
    Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 14:8.

    With all its solemn imagery, its rocks,
    Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received
    Into the bosom of the steady lake.
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    When heaven and earth were in confusion hurl’d
    For the debated empire of the world,
    Which awed with dreadful expectation lay,
    Soon to be slaves, uncertain who should sway:
    Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)