Quite Certain Quotes
40 quotes by 33 authors
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What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
— Victor Hugo
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There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China…
— Ross Garnaut
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I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think…
— John Brown
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Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know.…
— Edward Teller
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... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern…
— John Cassian
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I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so…
— Carrie Brownstein
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Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
— John Mason Brown
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It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain…
— Corin Nemec
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Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite…
— David Hilbert
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There…
— Malcolm X
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I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than…
— Terry Pratchett
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I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth…
— Michael Tippett
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In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they…
— Oscar Wilde
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