“We have no idea what your venture is or even your industry, so we won’t presume to tell you how to create… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse,… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I know that there is a near unanimous view in Congress that state or local taxes on Internet access would directly deter… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
What is the source of our existence? Something that is intangible, that derives from Spirit...Call it God or call it nature -… — Teri Bradley Copy Share Image
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Alaskans need some certainty and clarity over how the Pebble Partnership intends to proceed. I understand the complexity of a project like… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
If you think you can then you can and if you think you can't, you just can't. What you see in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
