(336 quotes found)
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion”
Mark Twain
“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that Iraq being fully disarmed is never going to be possible. At the end of the day the Security Council must decide whether Iraq is disarmed to the exten”
Kofi Annan
“A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure and contempt; and if the liberty of laughing be once indulged, every man will laugh at”
Samuel Johnson
“The certainty of EPACT allows people to make difficult decisions. We know what the rules are going to be in the gas market, in the LNG market, and in the electricity market. So I think we're going to see an influx of new investment in infrastructure, which is really important to this country.”
Nora Brownell
“We have said with certainty that the embargo will not be lifted by a Security Council resolution but will corrode by itself,”
Saddam Hussein
“I think they're waiting for Cisco, but they're also injecting their own level of certainty about the third quarter as being the turning point for the front end of technology stocks,”
Ned Riley
“I believe there is greater certainty that the water and land will be saved under private ownership and I hope the county will come to see that.”
Tovey Giezentanner
“The reliability of pet passports and the vaccinations, while high, is not high enough, and it doesn't offer the certainty of the present system.”
David Shaw
