Quotes About Certainty

Er sah hoch zu dem Fenster, hinter dem der alte Mann auf den Tod wartete, und fühlte sich von einem tiefen Einverständnis durchströmt. Was immer Sie tun, es wird das Richtige sein. »Gehen wir«, sagt er.

Matter of fact, the only certainty driving the economy is the certainty that boredom at faster and faster rates is inevitable.

philosopher named Descartes

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is somethings simply because it would be reassuring.

for your 'transactions,' as you call them, is derived from the

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world - full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us in the West - and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

I tell people all the time I don't make predictions.

I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.

I prefer fact to fiction.

You can't be partially pregnant.

When you prepare for something, it's hard to be nervous.

I think a lot of where I find my confidence is knowing I've prepared as well as I could have.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.