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Certain Quotes - Page 24

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “Holy Days: Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

"EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.

"Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview with David Mitchell, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.217, Univ. Press of Mississippi

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.225, Faber & Faber

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press