Richard E. Grant Quotes

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

I cannot guarantee anything.

Nothing is guaranteed.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

If I've learned anything, it's that you can't take anything for granted.

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

Nothing is ever certain.