I Know For Sure Quotes

#1. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?" - Pg 479 Brisingr

Christopher Paolini

#2. One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.

Jessica Scott

#3. Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.

Elizabeth Alexander

#4. What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.

Oprah Winfrey

#5. I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.

P.W. Catanese

#6. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.

Kathryn Perez

#7. Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Parker Palmer

#8. I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

Gabrielle Anwar

#9. Tears begin to well in my eyes. I have no idea how or if I even deserve him, but there's one thing I know for sure. As long as he's part of it, I'll never live a life of mediocrity.

Colleen Hoover

#10. The Only Thing I Know For Sure Is That I Know Nothing At All, For Sure

Socrates

#11. That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

Oprah Winfrey

#14. I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. That genius is a rare exception ( It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

Eric Hoffer

#17. The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

Barack Obama

#18. There's nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

Ellen DeGeneres

#19. I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.

Andrew Solomon

#20. What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Oprah Winfrey

#21. Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

Bill Hicks

#22. If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#23. I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

Jhene Aiko

#24. I know for sure that I will always compare every city skyline to New York's. Just as I will always compare every boy to Daniel.

Nicola Yoon

#25. Someday me and her, we'll come back here. Maybe she'll be an artist. Maybe she won't. Maybe I'll be an architect. Maybe I won't. What I know for sure is that Echo will be by my side, and that our love is forever.

Katie McGarry

#26. I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Madonna Ciccone

#27. What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.

Michelle Obama

#28. There aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is
that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow
through on some things.

Cecelia Ahern

#29. What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

Bear Grylls

#31. Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.

Oprah Winfrey

#32. What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

Oprah Winfrey

#33. This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

Georg Cantor

#34. Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus.

Oprah Winfrey

#35. One truth I know for sure is that I am so blessed in my life.

Jake T. Austin

#36. I know for sure,to be a leader i have to be a reader

Faiz Triumph

#37. I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always ... let's just say my life is never boring.

Gayle King

#38. What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

#39. I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He's called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that's what I'm going to do and I'll let the Lord take care of the rest.

Trip Lee

#40. It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure ... I think.

Ellen DeGeneres

#41. I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.

Xosha Roquemore

#42. Because this I know for sure: Who you're meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you're moving in the right direction.

Oprah Winfrey

#43. A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he's worth something. And if I know for sure that I'm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

Andrei Tarkovsky

#44. I'll tell you one thing I know for sure," he'd said. "You only have one life. Whatever you decide to do, you should try and be happy. Don't be afraid to take risks.

Dalia Jurgensen

#45. The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

Mary Engelbreit

#46. I know for sure, that the universe is wise and compassionate. The question then becomes: How can there be such brutality and pain and such suffering in the world if the universe is compassionate and wise. The reason is we put it there. We create it. And it is up to us to stop creating it.

Gary Zukav

#47. What I know for sure is that we are all created with this phenomenal force inside of us that can have us withstand - that God never gives us more than we can handle.

Debbie Ford

#48. The more I see, the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

#49. All I know for sure is that I have accidentally fallen through a wormhole in the universe and stumbled into someone else's grim life.

Augusten Burroughs

#50. I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.

Hugh Prather

#51. I wish I could wait forever for your love, my sweetheart..
even though I know for sure ... that none of us is immortal.

Toba Beta

#52. I want you," he says. "You said you didn't know what I wanted from you. I'm telling you. I want you. I want you to be mine. That's all I know for sure.

Rachel Robinson

#53. The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Grant Bowler

#54. If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate.

Simon Critchley

#55. One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Anne Lamott

#56. The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Ellen Hopkins

#57. The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Dean Koontz

#58. Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.

Buck Owens

#59. What I know for sure: There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make a loving and grateful peace with it.

Oprah Winfrey

#60. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

#61. Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all. But I know for sure that they did happen.

Haruki Murakami

#62. I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.

Richard Brancatisano

#63. I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Werner Herzog

#64. I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#65. All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Ezra Koenig

#66. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

Oprah Winfrey

#67. And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

Tony Dungy

#68. He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking,because we both know-this is the night we become real.

Jenny Han

#69. What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

Oprah Winfrey

#70. On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#71. How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.

Paul Hoffman

#72. What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

Oprah Winfrey

#73. I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.

Marcia Gay Harden

#74. There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.

Jon Jones

#75. I sit down and watch videos. I take notes. That's when that inspiration comes - the moment that makes sense of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I've got it. I know how to win. It's the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful.

Pep Guardiola

#76. Her laugh was a travesty. Which made sense because in a way, so was his apology. But what was he supposed to say?
I want you until I hurt. Until I sweat.
I love you with a raw, bleeding need that I've never understood.
And all I know for sure is that you can never be mine.

Jessica Bird

#77. Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

Dorothy Allison

#78. That said, there is one thing that I know for sure as a parent of four children and three dogs: I would never want to see any of them in pain.

Dr. James St.Clair "Dr. J"

#79. Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.

Sandi Layne

#80. I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

Greg Saunier

#81. As they say, it's possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

Sahara Sanders

#82. I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Vincent Van Gogh

#83. I know for sure that nothing matters.

Zola Jesus

#84. I know for sure now, I love him, all does not feel the same with anyone else, but i know not if i will ever see him again. I will savor the memory of him til the next time or will it be a memory forever and how can i live with the latter?

Maureen Salter

#85. Don't misunderstand, Ella. I want you. So fucking bad." I gathered her face in my hands. "The day I can finally bury myself inside of you is the day I know for sure that you're mine. All mine. Only mine. And anything other than that isn't good enough.

Christina Lee

#86. What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.

Eckhart Tolle

#87. What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Oprah Winfrey

#88. What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

Oprah Winfrey

#89. I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Maya Angelou

#90. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

Rumi

#91. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

#92. I'm a coward, January. I'm not sure if I can handle another heartbreak and I know if I fell for you, I'd fall so hard there'd be no coming back from it. You're extraordinary.

Fisher Amelie

#93. But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.
-The Pagoda

A.S. King

#94. Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

Sam Walton

#95. I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

Bitsie Tulloch

#96. I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing.

Sue Monk Kidd

#97. Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

Andre Agassi

#98. When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

Oliver Reed

#99. You know, you may look like that actor, but the only way I can tell for sure you're him is if I see that six-pack

S.E. Culpepper

#100. Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

Leona Lewis