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Quotes About Certainty

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything makes sense. Just about every whodunnit provides that pleasure.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Hesitation will guarantee failure. Whilst I hate the saying, if you're going to shoot, shoot.
~ Anthony James
It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.
~ Pete Gallego
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
~ John Lilly
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?
~ Robert Preston
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
~ E. O. Wilson
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
~ Marianne Moore
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
~ Grace Poe
When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.
~ Eric Fellner
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
~ Joan of Arc
I have put a date as to when I want my baby... The date has been fixed. Like, as if that's going to happen according to the date we have fixed. But Chay seems to be certain that it will happen on the assigned date.
~ Samantha Akkineni
The Earth is flat, 100 per cent.
~ Carl Froch
I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.
~ Stephen Hough
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
~ Marguerite Young
No one but a fool is always right.
~ David Hare
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
~ Antonio Porchia
I am the foremost expert on what Cory Stewart believes.
~ Corey Stewart
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
~ Anthony Trollope
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.
~ Will Arnett
Love...is the immovability of truth.
~ Foer
If you are four you are four
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
What if you did not feel uncertainty, the white writing says. Are you exempt from doubt? Why not rename it excitement?
~ Frances Mayes