Certain Quotes - Page 27

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.