88 quotes found
“Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.”
“I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”
“My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been love...”
“Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only objector will be.”
“It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its ...”
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
“Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.”
“I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.”
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
“Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.”
“Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die.But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exa...”
“The opposite of faith isnt doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.”
“Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.”
“...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she ...”
“Courage is a certainty.”
“The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously.”
“But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He under...”
“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you...”
“Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.”
