Certainty Quotes

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it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime — Michel Foucault
I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. — David James Duncan
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull… — Kristen Britain
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual… — Charles Dickens
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy. — Toni Morrison
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness… — Alan Watts
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is… — Ambrose Bierce
Certainty becomes you. — Tessa Dare
That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too. — Kaui Hart Hemmings
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually… — Dan Barker
No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and… — David Foenkinos
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was â€• a phantom life, taunting… — Laini Taylor
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,… — Marya Hornbacher
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start… — James Patterson
Youâ€™re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it… — Haruki Murakami
He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until… — Julie Garwood
Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No… — Tess Gerritsen

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