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" A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. "
Bret Harte
" A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. "
Henry A. Wallace
" A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty. "
John Shelby Spong
" And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. "
William Gibson
" And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. "
Joseph Glanvill
" As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies. "
Ted Yoho
" As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. "
Bridget Riley
" A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. "
Rudyard Kipling
" Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. "
Tom Stoppard
" Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa. "
Nicky Oppenheimer
" Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. "
Edward Coke
" Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
" Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it. "
Sibel Edmonds
" Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. "
Dylan Thomas
" Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. "
Voltaire
" Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. "
Thomas Szasz
" Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. "
Horace Greeley
" For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. "
Jose Manuel Barroso
" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "
Tom Stoppard
" Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. "
Vaclav Havel
" Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. "
Vaclav Havel
" I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. "
Michael Crichton
" I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms. "
Lynn Coady
" I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything. "
Ian Mckellen
" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "
Lord Byron
" I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion. "
Phil Donahue
" In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love. "
Pope Benedict XVI
" Inquiry is fatal to certainty. "
Will Durant
" It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. "
Henri Poincare
" It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour. "
Charles Sturt
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