Top 100 Know For Sure Quotes
#1. One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.
Jessica Scott
#2. Future?" Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. "Well," he said, "I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.
William, Saroyan
#3. I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.
Maya Angelou
#4. (None of us can ever know for sure who we are going to die with.)
Javier Marias
#5. That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.
Marcus Aurelius
#6. 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
#7. I don't know for sure where I'm going to end up.
But I know who I love. And I'm figuring out that might be enough to live for.
Katie Kacvinsky
#8. 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
#9. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
Jesse Ventura
#10. 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
#11. I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.
Melissa Fumero
#12. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like.
Naoki Higashida
#13. We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.
Roy Spencer
#14. What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.
Tony Hoagland
#15. 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
#16. Friends may be enemies, and enemies, friends. Lacking the ability to see into another's mind and read the motivations that lie within, no man can know for sure.
Shaun Myandee
#17. I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder ... I didn't chisel anything in stone ... Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.
Anne Heche
#18. ... one thing we know for sure: everybody has to be somewhere. Is it possible you are somewhere you didn't fully realize?
Van Harden
#19. 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
#20. One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.
Vint Cerf
#21. You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.
Pia Toscano
#22. I know for sure that nothing matters.
Zola Jesus
#23. Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.
Ellen Page
#24. What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
#25. Though he'd never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.
James Dashner
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. [ ... ] if you notice a rise in reports about shark attacks on the news, you start to believe sharks are out of control, when the only thing you know for sure is the news is delivering more stories about sharks than usual.
David McRaney
#29. It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
Sarah Dessen
#30. All this I am projecting, of course. I'll never know for sure. We can't fully understand what plagues each other's hearts, much less our own at times. Ultimately even our best friends are unknowable to us.
Don Lee
#31. I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.
Greg Saunier
#32. In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.
Robert L. O'Connell
#33. Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.
Sandi Layne
#34. The journey has many bumps, twists and turns. But one day you will reach your destination. You'll know for sure then that it was all worth it. So keep on trusting and keep on walking. The end will be more glorious than you can imagine.
Anusha Atukorala
#35. 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"
#36. I want to believe your love is only for me. That your lips are mine. That your kisses are meant for me. That your body belongs to me." His arms move to my waist and tighten around me and he presses his hard body against mine. "But when you leave me to see him, it's hard to know for sure.
Kim Karr
#37. Have you ever been in love? For real?"
"You know I haven't. Don't you think I would have mentioned it?"
"But how can you know for sure, if you don't know what it would feel like? Maybe you have without even realizing it. Maybe you're holding out for something you already have.
Cassandra Clare
#38. 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
#39. Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
#40. 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
#41. How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.
Dennis Miller
#42. 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
#43. When you know for sure that you're on course and doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing, fulfilling your soul's intention, your heart's desire. When your life is on course with its purpose, you are at your most powerful. And though you may stumble, you will not fall.
Oprah Winfrey
#44. There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.
Jon Jones
#45. Even when you feel as though everything is 100% it can still go wrong on the night (like in Melbourne!) so you never know for sure that you're going to do the performance you expect.
Chris Hoy
#46. 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
#47. I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball.
Kevin Durant
#48. It's a puzzler, and I don't want to sound full of myself, but I may just be the Vyrus messiah."
He shakes his head.
"I don't know for sure. Have to meditate on that shit some more. Anyhoo.
Charlie Huston
#49. When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!
Oprah Winfrey
#50. If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#51. I think it's ugly, but I don't know anything about modern art. Sometimes I wish Newt would take some lessons, so he could know for sure if he was doing something or not.
Kurt Vonnegut
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.
Levon Helm
#56. The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
David Deutsch
#57. Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.
Chester Brown
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.
Tony Dungy
#61. When she was born I wanted to go out and kill someone for her, so she would know for sure, all her life, that I was ready to do it if it needed doing.
Tana French
#62. We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymen's efforts to lead them astray.
Mary E. Hunt
#63. 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
#64. The uncertainty of tomorrow can only be understood by those who don't know for sure if they will live another day.
Rumiko Takahashi
#65. One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
George Carlin
#66. I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?
Chely Wright
#67. All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
Ezra Koenig
#68. 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
#69. I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.
Werner Herzog
#70. Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure?
Walker Percy
#71. 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
#72. You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.
Bob Costas
#73. The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation.
Robert Fritz
#74. And we would guess though never know for sure but that was when my husband planted our daughter inside of me.
Kristen Ashley
#75. 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
#76. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.
Rahul Bose
#80. Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Wayne W. Dyer
#81. The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
Dean Koontz
#82. They continued on to London, and she's there, safe and sound, waiting for you.'
'You can't know for sure.' Piers swung up into the carriage.
'You will never know for sure if she's dead or alive unless you keep her near you all the time,' Sebastian said with perfect, if maddening, accuracy.
Eloisa James
#83. The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
Ellen Hopkins
#84. It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.
Wayne Dyer
#85. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky
#86. 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
#87. One thing we know for sure is that we know very little about what will happen next.
Kezia Dugdale
#88. 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
#89. Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you're still never going to know for sure everything he's thinking?
James Patterson
#90. One thing we can know for sure is that when we are confessing our sin to God but not to the people around us in ordinary, nitty-gritty life, there is not much real spiritual transformation going on
Ruth Haley Barton
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
Valentino Rossi
#97. The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon
#98. 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
#99. The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we'll find a way to make it work.
Nicholas Sparks
#100. I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.
Thomas Pynchon
