Quotes About Certainty

not now. He was quiet, and then he said, "You are the only person in this world I want to have sitting here beside me. That isn't what I think, it's what I know. I guess it doesn't explain anything.

Mes nuolat atmetame liudijimus, i kuriuos reiktu isiklausyti. Tai yra mes esame taip isitikine savo nuomones teisumu, kas visi parodymai, kurie jos nepatvirtina, laikomi nepagristais. Sitaip niekada nepasieksime to, ka galima butu pavadinti tiesa.

We can feel deficiency in what we know or do, we can hear inadequacy in our most painfully considered phrases. And gracious and chimerical beauty will bless us with the certainty that there is more to be hoped for, more to be tried.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain.

And now, as he looked deeply into Nicole's eyes, he determined she was telling him the absolute truth.

As much as a man can guarantee anything against fate. Yes, I'm confident

Qué suerte tenían aquellos para quienes la existencia del ser supremo no había sido nunca un problema, sino una certeza gracias a la cual el mundo se les ordenaba y todo encontraba su explicación y razón de ser.

Queta, señora? Sí, y Amalia no lo creía, con el

Pero un día perdí la fe y nunca más la he recobrado. Creo que la perdí apenas empecé a pensar. Para ser creyente no conviene pensar mucho.

Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams?

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday,' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. And anyway, he'll answer to God for what he did. She announced this with great certainty. For a girl with nothing to her name but a parakeet, to have such unwavering belief in the reckoning of evil in the world—a belief I could never bring myself to have, having seen, time and time again, depravity go unchecked—it awed me, and it was some time before I could bring myself to speak.

My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical.

Against the certainties of the American command, the truth never stood a chance.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Glauben ist das Vertrauen ins Unmögliche.

A mí me gustan los horarios, porque son la garantía de que no te vas a perder en el tiempo.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Whatever is, is, and whatever is not, is not

His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension. Either you apprehend God, or you do not.

All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents." At

But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to be triumphal. Harry Penn was certain that in his nearly one hundred years he had never encountered a soul more intensely marinated in self-satisfaction. Craig Binky's pomposity was often relieved, for others, by what Harry Penn generously termed Mr. Binky's somewhat inexact intelligence.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.