Quotes tagged ‘Certainty’

(26 total)

“It’s the perfect antidote for certainty, which we have far too much of today.”

“We have to give some certainty to these young men and women—some of these young women that have families now—about what is their status in this country. So I think everyone's, you know, kind of dancing around the main topic. But at the end of the day, we're just going to have to come to the realizat…”

— Ruben Gallego, npr.org

“I'd rather have hope with you than certainty anywhere else.”

— Doris Egan, Queen Mary Stuart, Adelaide Kane, imdb.com

“Niles: Can you tell me, with any certainty, that in such a vast universe there isn't intelligent life on other planets? Frasier: At the moment, I'm not sure there's intelligent life in this kitchen.”

— Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg, Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer, imdb.com

“Every man, he craves certainty.”

— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“It's like Descartes says, 'In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know.'”

— Gloria Calderon Kellett, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“Morty: If you could get out that whole time why didn't you? Rick: Because I waited until I was certain it was what I wanted to do, Morty! That's the difference between you and me: I'm certain, and you're a walking burlap sack filled with turds.”

— Matt Roller, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty. Everything happening is exactly what I predicted.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Spencer: I don't think this is gonna come as any surprise to you, but I can be really certain about things. Jason: Not a surprise. Spencer: I like being certain. Okay, it's where I'm comfortable. I am not happy in the gray places.”

— I. Marlene King, Spencer Hastings, Troian Bellisario, imdb.com

“Rage is to righteousness as certainty is to wisdom. Constantly mistaken for each other, they're hardly ever in the same room.”

— J. K. Rowling, twitter.com

“In my heart I love her all the time.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.”

— Kiera Cass, amazon.com

“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

— Abraham Maslow, goodreads.com

“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“I don’t have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.”

— Edward Norton, independent.co.uk

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we l…”

— Rollo May, amazon.com

“Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.”

— Baruch Spinoza, goodreads.com

“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”

— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com