Quotes About Certainty

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

I just wanted to be sure of you.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

When you believe what you know, you love.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

The one thing of which we are certain, in an uncertain universe, is that energy is never lost. It is transformed, but it never disappears.

IT WASN'T THAT MY MOTHER AND FATHER were indifferent to their children's physical well-being by any means. It was just that they seemed to believe that everything would be fine in the end and they were always right.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

certainty. The urge to switch from subjunctive to indicative is, to paraphrase Alastair Fowler, always a powerful

He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts

A. L. Rowse—who, it must be said, never allowed an absence of certainty to get in the way of a conclusion—in 1973 identified the dark lady as Emilia Bassano, daughter of one of the queen's musicians, and, with a certain thrust of literary jaw, asserted that his conclusions "cannot be impugned, for they are the answer," even though they are unsupported by anything that might reasonably be termed proof.

Although we can predict the course of broad trends, like "there will be more hot days" and "sea levels will go up," we can't with certainty blame climate change for any particular event. For example, when there's a heat wave, we can't say whether it was caused by climate change alone. What we can do, though, is say how much climate change increased the odds of that heat wave happening.

Reality is that which, when you don't believe it, doesn't go away.