For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty. — Lori Guinn Copy Share Image
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom. — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Don't play with someone's feelings, you may win the game but you will surely lose someone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty.” — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
“There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
Large waves of love and romance are nice, but all waves of strong feeling, with their inherent illusion of certainty, must eventually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
“Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Okay. I'll deal with Benjamin. You're safe, okay? Nothing's gonna happen." His mouth pulled tight against itself. And now I was having… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
