Certainty Quotes

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Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you… — John Vaillant
It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided.… — Deb Caletti
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty. — Piers Anthony
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed… — Julie Garwood
These prinÂciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never… — Leo Tolstoy
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken… — Lauren Oliver
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which… — Milan Kundera
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are… — Robin Hobb
Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know… — Diana Gabaldon
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. — Jodi Picoult
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial --… — Octavia Butler
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent… — Aldous Huxley
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay. — Lisa Kleypas
Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also… — Rob Lowe
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my… — Evelyn Waugh

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