Top 100 Be Sure Quotes
#1. If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.
Elmore Leonard
#2. The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. If God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#4. It seems strange to want to find yourself. Wouldn't you want to find somebody else? Aren't you the one thing you can be sure of?
Brooke Davis
#5. If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
John Dryden
#6. For when you suffer, you can be sure that one of two things is happening. Either God is teaching you to rely on his grace and sufficiency through your pain, or he is teaching you to return to his grace and sufficiency through your pain.
Joe Thorn
#7. Claire's cottage wasn't quite the same layout as his mother's, but it looked to be the same size. Daniel couldn't be sure - he'd have to see Claire's bedroom first. Internally again, Daniel laughed and then he sighed again. Did he just make a joke in his head and laugh at himself?
Allie Burke
#8. In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
Ben Marcus
#9. He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
Francis Bacon
#10. I need a hero. I'm holding out for a hero, in fact, until the morning light. And she's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon - because I have been kidnapped by evil faeries - and she's gotta be larger than life
Cassandra Clare
#11. Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
Samuel Johnson
#12. When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
Charles Spurgeon
#13. O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of
disappointment.
Oliver Goldsmith
#14. Buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.
John D. Voelker
#15. There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
William III Of England
#16. Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Scott Dikkers
#17. I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.
R.A. Lafferty
#18. If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?
Sarah Harrison
#19. Ah, lassies, be sure ye make good decisions, firm and fast. Those who don't know what they want get what they deserve.
OLD WOMAN NORA OF LOCH LOMOND
TO HER THREE WEE GRANDDAUGHTERS ONE COLD NIGHT
Karen Hawkins
#20. A higher speed on the wrong path is very is fatal! Don't be desperate about going ahead with the highest speed. First of all, be sure you are on the right track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.
Dwight L. Moody
#22. I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane
#23. The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke
#24. It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#25. Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#26. Can you be sure?"
"I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.
Jessica Day George
#27. All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing.
Pico Iyer
#28. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
Leo Rosten
#29. Never do anything irrevocable with a man that you don't want as your husband. You must be sure that you can live yourself, and with him. It may seems like only a moment, but you will be forever locked to him -- emotionally, physically, or even more.
Melody Anne
#30. I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt
#31. The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.
Franklin Edgerton
#32. My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator ... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.
Augusto Pinochet
#33. If I do not love my fellow man, I can be sure of it that I do not love Jesus Christ. And I would do well if guilty of loving Jesus Christ even more than I love my fellow man, because only by this may I fully come to love my fellow man.
Criss Jami
#34. Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#36. If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.
Sharon Gannon
#37. Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
Donald Cargill
#38. Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
Giacomo Casanova
#39. Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.
Robert Breault
#40. Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.
Peter Kropotkin
#41. Death is an inconvenience, to be sure," The Wizard Landau Bain, Lucky Stiff (still writing it)
Robert Lee Beers
#42. TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house.
Shel Silverstein
#43. The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.
Victor Villasenor
#44. Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change
Dave Matthews
#45. When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann
#46. Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs.
Seth Klarman
#47. Her head swung around as if it had become detached from her spine. "My God! Your brother is HOT!"
Calista shook her head and looped an arm around the woman's waist. "Yes, he is. I'll be sure to tell my family you thought so."
"It doesn't count when they're drunk. House rule," I complained.
Ashlan Thomas
#48. The Lord gave you a mind so that you can make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.
Marilynne Robinson
#49. On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
Eric Cantona
#50. Too bad you need both hands for crawling," I said. "We could use some sunshine in here."
"Next time, I'll be sure to ask the sprites for a flashlight."
"And a bottle of water. I think I've swallowed enough dust to shit a brick later.
Kelly Meding
#51. You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.
Napoleon Hill
#52. In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#53. I am somewhat proud of this," Mab's cold voice said. "To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists.
Jim Butcher
#54. Elias Canetti once tried to imagine a world in which 'all weapons [were] abolished and in the next war only biting [was] allowed'. Can we be sure there would be no genocides in such a radically disarmed world?
Niall Ferguson
#55. I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Ann Richards
#56. Did you wish to offer your commiserations? I ask too sweetly. I think he's trying to stifle a smile, but I can't be sure.
E.L. James
#57. What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?
George Frideric Handel
#58. Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.
Karen Hawkins
#59. My parents would take my sister and me out for dinner now and then, and while waiting for the food to be served, would point out the oldest, most harried looking waitress in the place, saying sternly, Be sure you get a good education, so you don't have to do that when you're fifty!
Diana Gabaldon
#60. To all of us the thought of heaven is dear
Why not be sure of it and make it here?
No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,
But 'tis so far away
and you are near.
Omar Khayyam
#61. Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.
Marilynne Robinson
#62. As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
James Levine
#63. Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!
Denise Austin
#64. People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.
Stephen Covey
#65. I think you should really really be sure you love someone + that they love you back before you get into a relationship.
Hillary Frank
#66. The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones
Jeaniene Frost
#67. Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
John Henry Newman
#68. Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.
Michelle Moran
#69. Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
Kenzo Tange
#70. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
Bo Bennett
#71. I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche ...
James Hillman
#72. With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.
Janet Edwards
#73. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle.
#74. In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Adam Driver
#75. To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato
#77. Well, you know what they say about traps." "Be sure the reward is worth the risk?" "Aye.
Carl James
#79. Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.
Joyce Brothers
#80. When he returned to the Iron Man production office, Downey asked that Favreau be sure to place a Tesla Roadster in Tony Stark's workshop.
Ashlee Vance
#81. Never be sure unless you check it again ,double check and be safe all the time.
Saziso Lucas
#82. Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T. S. Eliot
#83. Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City!
David Berg
#84. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.
Rebecca Taylor
#85. Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.
Billy Graham
#86. If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.
Calvin Coolidge
#87. A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andy Murray
#89. She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#90. I can't be sure, but I think love is someone who gets you.
Karen Harrington
#91. It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard
#92. God is sacred only to those who believe in him. If you wish to insult or offend God, you have to be sure that he exists.
Charb
#93. Albert knew that one could never be sure about magic, but a lack of certainty is not a good reason to do nothing.
Howard L. Anderson
#94. If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
George D. Prentice
#95. I believe it could very well be unconstitutional to ban people. We are a country of immigrants, but we have to know who's coming in. They need to come in legally. And we need to be sure that we have been able to have them satisfy the criteria that we set for them to come into our country.
Jan Brewer
#96. There's a hell of a lot you haven't shared." "Oh, I'm sorry. Be sure to send out invites to the pot-meets-kettle show you'll be throwing." "I'm sensing sarcasm. I think being in Cajun country's given me some of your voodoo.
S.E. Jakes
#97. He had this way of talking where you could never quite be sure that he wasn't mocking you.
Jojo Moyes
#98. If I can't be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impressions those facts left.
Julian Barnes
#99. There is no such thing as just a story. A story is always charged with meaning...And we can be sure that if we know a story well enough to tell it, it carries meaning for us. - ROBERT FULFORD
F.S. Michaels
#100. his surprise and relief, her arm was whole. He blinked several times to be sure and thanked God for the remission that she must have experienced.
David Levin
