Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out…

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either…

— Vaclav Havel

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve…

— James Heckman

“there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Yes, especially if the lady is intelligent. I have never been one to tolerate fools, regardless of their sex, so it follows I also…

— Angela Quarles

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

— Vaclav Havel

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the…

— Pope Francis

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

— Bill Foster

Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is…

— Annamie Paul

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

— Robert Breault

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood