Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“So many it seems, have made it their life's goal to bask in the ignorance of their certainty.” — John Chaplin Copy Share Image
I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Broken today, healed tomorrow. There's nothing mysterious about how life works, it just goes on. — Blossom Copy Share Image
Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
“And, suddenly, something new is now certain, something that we hadn't ever thought of before. There will come a day when we… — Hannah Pittard Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Follow your heart with no doubt. If it's right, you'll succeed. If it's wrong, you'll learn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
A fighter in his prime needs to stay active. A fighter, who doesn't have certainty when he's going to fight again, it's… — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
