Pat Oliphant Quotes

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of the country.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

There is nothing assured to mortals.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.