I Am Certain Quotes

#1. I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

Phil Donahue

#2. Why did she do this to me?" I mumble. "Actually, Samuel, from my preliminary scans of your internal organs, it does not appear that our mother has done anything to you. Were you in need of repair as well? If so, I am certain she will -

James Patterson

#3. I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

William E. Gladstone

#4. I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

Martha Graham

#5. I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries.

Klaus Von Klitzing

#6. I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

Sigmar Gabriel

#7. I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. It is necessary ... to point out to such people certain places where I am certain they will have only to see clearly to recognize the great difference ...

Canguilhem

#10. From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

Frank Herman Schofield

#11. I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

Adolf Eichmann

#12. I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

Edward Teller

#13. In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.

John Steinbeck

#14. I am certain of nothing but the beauty of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Friedrich Hayek

#16. In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

John Turner

#17. Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Mark Hopkins

#18. There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley

#20. Our fingers unlace so slowly that I am certain some part of me has been left behind on her fingertips.

Mary E. Pearson

#21. I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

Albert Schweitzer

#22. I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

Cordell Hull

#23. And once I am there, I shall seek out Watson, if he still lives - and I fancy he does. It is irrational, I acknowledge, and yet I am certain that I would know, somehow, had Watson passed beyond the veil.

Neil Gaiman

#24. I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church ...
Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#26. I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#27. Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

Ben Stein

#28. I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#29. Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

John Adams

#30. You can never come to a moment when you can say, "Now I am certain." When you say you are certain, you simply declare your death; you have committed suicide. Life

Osho

#31. The young man is both like and unlike us."
Oberon paused his perpetual motion.
"Like and unlike? Could he be a changeling, one of the Faery?"
I shook my head. "He is human. I am certain. But he sees the world as it is and not as humans would have it be."
(p63)

A.C.E. Bauer

#32. When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Jules Renard

#33. When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

Juliette Drouet

#34. We can never know the gifts that will flow to us until they arrive, but of one thing I am certain. Courage and honesty are always rewarded.

Bronnie Ware

#35. All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

Eric Clapton

#36. I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#37. For just as I am certain of God and His existence, I am equally certain that one day we will meet... or meet again. And that will be a wonderful day!

Jose N. Harris

#38. You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me ... like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.

Lara Adrian

#39. I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

#40. The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Albert Camus

#41. The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

Bob Kerrey

#42. A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.

Simon Mawer

#43. I believe a megalomaniac is someone who suffers from delusions about their own power. Trust me," he says, and this time I am certain I see mirth dancing in his eyes, "I suffer no delusions about the extent of my power.

J. Kenner

#44. I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.

Saint Patrick

#45. I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.

Emily Giffin

#46. I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

Silvio Berlusconi

#47. I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

Daphne Guinness

#48. I do not need to recall the past," I say. "I am certain of what it was.

Adam Johnson

#49. I am certain, without any doubt, she was meant to be in my life. We belong to each other. I spent too much of my time consumed with what everyone else thinks of my feelings for Darcie, but the truth is, it was always supposed to be this way." ~Reggie Evans

M.S. Brannon

#50. I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

Lewis B. Smedes

#51. I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

Colleen Hanabusa

#52. For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull?
Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining."
Your immensely entertaining sister,
Miri

Shannon Hale

#53. I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.

Kristina Schroder

#54. I am certain of nothing but the truth of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#55. I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

Jo Bonner

#56. I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Martin Luther

#57. Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.

David Frost

#58. I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.

Steven Schier

#59. For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself.

Plato

#60. My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

Peter S. Beagle

#61. I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.

Gabriel Figueroa

#62. And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

Donald Rumsfeld

#63. I never showed up in her dreams, I am certain, as people we keep in our memories rarely have a place for us in theirs.

Yiyun Li

#64. I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

George Crumb

#65. Of one inalienable truth I am certain: together, standing shoulder to shoulder, women are the greatest force of nature. I also know that when we cease to dilute our power in the name of politics, religion, and male attention, we will be introduced to the best version of collective self.

Vivek Wadhwa

#66. I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.

Luis A. Ferre

#67. There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.

Nikki Rowe

#68. I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Oliver Goldsmith

#69. I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable
the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.

Peter Greenaway

#70. It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will set that way.

Edward Taylor

#71. I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

Odilon Redon

#72. I am certain that a quiet mind is the foundation of inner peace. And inner peace translates into outer peace.

Richard Carlson

#73. I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Michael Crichton

#74. There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896

Erin Morgenstern

#75. Ashington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Marcus Luttrell

#76. I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

Jim Elliot

#77. Apparently I am pushing a jinx about the streets. I am certain that I can do better with some other wagon. A new cart, a new start.

John Kennedy Toole

#78. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

John Keats

#79. I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Saint Patrick

#80. I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Terry Pratchett

#81. I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

Anne Rice

#82. It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

Neville Chamberlain

#83. I have seen too many young writers give up because they couldn't handle the repeated failures their profession threw at them. They had talent, but they lacked determination and resilience. Marina had all three, and that's why I am certain she would have succeeded.

Marina Keegan

#84. Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

Albert Camus

#85. She won't know how to fulfill the duties of a noblewoman.'
'She is quite bright. And one could find no fault with her manners. She has received a gentle education. I am certain she will make an excellent countess.' Robert's expression softened. 'Her very nature will bring honor to our name.

Julia Quinn

#86. If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home.

Vladimir Nabokov

#87. I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Mario Monti

#88. Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

David Dinkins

#89. If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.

Christina Engela

#90. I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then ... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

Roald Dahl

#91. If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead ... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

Ann Hood

#92. I am certain that I'm not the only one who would like to have a do-over on an interaction with a loved one.

Lisa J. Shultz

#93. What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?"
The earl looked daggers.
"I am certain he would be extremely helpful in a fight. He could ruthlessly flatter all your attackers into abject submission.

Gail Carriger

#94. One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

Charles Ives

#95. Two damaged, broken people looking for the person who could make them whole again. I am his and he is mine. Of this, I am certain.

Sydney Landon

#96. I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads.

Jacques Lusseyran

#97. When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Brian K. Vaughan

#98. I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Margaret Atwood

#99. Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future ... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches ... facilitate learning.

Warren G. Bennis

#100. I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.

Alain Robbe-Grillet