Certain Quotes - Page 40

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

What is truth? I think stating a truth could be dangerous, because we are locking something in and therefore making it harder for ourselves to change beyond that certain thought or concept.

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

I do still get intimidated by certain things.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.