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Quotes About Certainty

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;
~ Mark Twain
So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.
~ Mark Twain
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so
~ Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
~ Mark Twain
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.
~ Mark Twain
If one keep to the things he knows, and not trouble about the things which he cannot be sure about, he will have the steadier mind for it.
~ Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
~ Mark Twain
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
~ Mark twin
Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I looked at my hands. I was holding onto the steering wheel so tightly, all my knuckles where shiny points of white, and my blinker was on, CLICK-click CLICK-click CLICK-click, so certain, so plain, so clear, and yet for all its mechanical conviction, blinking me in the wrong direction.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Please forgive me for thinking faith means certainty.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
~ Markus Zusak
Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
~ Markus Zusak
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.
~ Markus Zusak
For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right.
~ Markus Zusak
White is without question a color, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.
~ Markus Zusak
Marv glaubt an so etwas, und ich weiss, dass ich das nicht geringschaetzen sollte. Es ist, wie es ist.
~ Markus Zusak
I don't believe this, Sister Maria muttered. It can't be, because sure enough, when Liesel stepped forward and presented her hands, Ludwig Schmeikl was all over them, rusting by the moment.
~ Markus Zusak
Belki kelimesi beni rahats?z etmeye baÅŸlam??t? çünkü sabit olan tek ÅŸey 'belkiler'in sonsuza dek benimle kalabilecek olmas?yd?.
~ Markus Zusak
The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me for ever. Maybe
~ Markus Zusak
For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right.
~ Markus Zusak
He's the type who is unafraid to make a decision. In this case, Rudy had already made up his mind about Liesel Meminger.
~ Markus Zusak
Y él lo había creído, porque entonces era verdad, era verdad hasta que se había ido acercando la hora de la verdad
~ Martín Casariego
Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder than on a person than being wrong.
~ Martha Grimes