Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yehuda Berg

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Yehuda Berg

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

We want to have some certainty that we're going to continue. It's a little unclear, at least in my mind, what council's direction will be.

The only certainty is that there is consciousness

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

We have had inquiries all week but they reached a crescendo this morning - the odds suggest the happy couple are a certainty to get married.

Title Two, on the whole, is a good statute. It provides a degree of certainty for service providers, so that they know what their exposures are.

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Like any good cook, you go back in the kitchen and you revamp your recipe and you take what you have on hand and you still make up something pretty good. And I think after spending the last two months with the women on our team, I think that with certainty we can whip up something pretty good.

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

Obviously, we're starting to get the news from Katrina on the real situation, and the market is viewing that as not as bad. What's really driving it is when some refiners will come on line. That kind of certainty gives the market a platform to move higher.

Sophocles

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

Aristotle

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

The good news is that we've needed the certainty of the numbers, and these numbers are in line with what we thought.

Two months ago, a hike in May seemed not so likely; now it seems like a certainty.

Jon Katz

Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.

Shekhar Kapur

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

E. W. Howe

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Within a 95 percent degree of medical certainty, this picture was taken when he was dead.

With greater certainty regarding the place of ICC events in the calendar, the ICC and its members are now in a position to continue their discussions over the introduction of a six-year program.

What everyone wanted, and what Scripps needed, was certainty ... and that's what we got.

At the moment, Costa looks like a certainty to represent the UK but sadly we still think that there is more chance of rain every day at Wimbledon, offered at 28/1, than the UK winning the Eurovision Song Contest!

At the end of the day, from an Ericsson perspective I just want to see our customers have certainty around their investments, certainty around the market environment in which they play and to be as successful as possible because then we can help them deliver their services with our services or infrastructure as well.

Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Mark Krikorian

These young players coming out of their clubs and high schools want to know they have a chance to get to their national teams (by playing here). We felt we could say that with all certainty before, but now it makes the claim even stronger.

Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quarterly earnings increases, margin improvement and double-digit sales growth driven by acquisitions, improved company wide volume coming from significant new consumer product and market development, and geographical expansion. Our employees remained focused on meeting the needs of our customers while improving productivity and managing costs in all of our businesses. We continued our efforts to successfully hedge the majority of our natural gas needs to provide more certainty of energy costs, and we maintained a positive price/cost relationship, despite rising costs in most raw materials.

Torture is defined, with reasonable certainty, severe pain and suffering, physical or psychological. It is defined about as well as legal terms can be defined.

Guy de Maupassant

The only certainty is death.

Climate warming is a certainty for our future and ... the long-term prognosis is clear and very dire.

Before the first dollar is spent, before the first experiment is done in a test tube or in a mouse or in people, we're going to tell you what you need to do at the end of the day. There will be a level of certainty and understanding that we think will foster innovation.

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

Henry Hyde

I'm opposed to censure, ... Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.