Certain Quotes - Page 22

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Society is better off without certain people.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not entirely certain what yesterday brought?

One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.