I realized that there are no certainties in life. You…

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life…

— Inez Milholland

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

— Wayne Dyer

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

— William P. Young

“Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?”

— Stephen Leather

“The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?”

— Doug Pedersen

“There are few certainties in life, one of which is: life is short.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the…

— Rosalie Maggio

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

— Mark Twain

Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of,…

— Deb Caletti

Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having…

— John Perry

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public…

— Woody Allen

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or…

— Anne Lamott

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck