Top 100 Nothing Is Certain Quotes
#1. I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.
Milla Jovovich
#2. It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.
Paul Auster
#3. While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
Michael K. Simpson
#4. Upon disaster depends good fortune;
within good fortune hides disaster.
Where will it end?
For nothing is certain;
what is correct goes astray;
what is right goes wrong.
Our confusion goes on and on.
Lao-Tzu
#5. When nothing is certain - and nothing ever is - choose to be happy.
Mo Gawdat
#6. I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#7. The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.
Brian Froud
#8. Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
Horatio Nelson
#9. They say that nothing is certain but death and taxes, and I already screwed one of those up, so I better pay my taxes....
Edmund Alexander Sims
#10. Suddenly (like walking into a light you know) you discover this: the certainty that nothing is certain, the deep relief of your own incredible smallness."
(From "Even If You Could Explain It Completely")
Adele Kenny
#11. In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain
Pliny The Elder
#12. What has been is immovable and unchanging; what will be is full of infinite possibilities - some more likely than others. Nothing is certain until it happens.
Laura Thalassa
#13. We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
Vaclav Havel
#15. We have no destiny assigned us:
Nothing is certain but the body; we plan
To better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind us
Of the equality of man.
W. H. Auden
#16. In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.
Robert Dallek
#17. The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F. Kennedy
#20. I will follow this strategy until I discover something that is certain or, at least, until I discover that it is certain only that nothing is certain.
Rene Descartes
#21. When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
Bertrand Russell
#23. Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. Be near me. The world is rowdy and nothing is certain. Do not stray. None of us was meant to face the day and the night alone, though that is what we do and memory now is a place of fading togetherness. Be near me. True love is what God intends.
Andrew O'Hagan
#25. What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#27. Nothing is certain," he murmured. "The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice.
Julie Kagawa
#28. In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
Mark Steyn
#29. Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles in life: nothing is sure, nothing is certain, nothing is free, nothing is forever. It is a noble calling.
William Boyd
#30. There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
William Boyd
#33. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.
Kelly McBride
#34. There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
Jorge Luis Borges
#35. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
James Van Der Beek
#36. Well, no need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to bring worse than today, for many days to come. And there is nothing more that I can do to help it. The board is set, and the pieces are moving. One
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Douglas Sirk
#38. I still let myself be a fan of music and that motivates me to want to be better than certain people or just getting the same love. Nothing is new under the sun so you cant be afraid to take things from others and try to flip them and make them your own at the end of the day.
Kid Ink
#39. No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.
Mark Haddon
#40. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Thomas Jefferson
#41. When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you.
Wayne Dyer
#42. Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
Colm Toibin
#43. Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Thomas Paine
#44. I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.
Neil Gaiman
#45. No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.
Blake Nelson
#46. Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. Nothing under Providence is ever certain until an agent goes and tries and makes it so.
Ada Palmer
#48. Whilst every principle of authority and resistance has been pushed, upon both sides, as far as it would go, there is nothing so solid and certain, either in reasoning or in practice, that has not been shaken.
Edmund Burke
#49. All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.
Plutarch
#50. I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British
Peter Milligan
#51. There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
Alan Watts
#52. Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.
Richard Barnfield
#53. To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.
Ernst F. Schumacher
#54. Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#55. There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.
Mike Nichols
#56. It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
Seneca The Younger
#57. There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.
Oswald Chambers
#58. To remain silent is to give the impression that one has no opinions, that one wants nothing, and in certain cases it really amounts to wanting nothing.
Albert Camus
#59. The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.
John F. Kennedy
#60. In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
Robert Sexton
#61. When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#62. Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.
Ken Kesey
#63. Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca The Younger
#64. And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new
Billy Joel
#65. There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
Baltasar Gracian
#66. And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.
Penelope Lively
#67. We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.
Mark Falcoff
#69. I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
Danny Strong
#71. Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
Pliny The Elder
#72. Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.
David Keirsey
#73. It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
Michel De Montaigne
#74. There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
Pat Sajak
#75. We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.
Orson Scott Card
#76. If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.
Chris Toumazou
#77. I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
Laura Benanti
#78. Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
Agatha Christie
#79. Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
Samuel Johnson
#80. That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Francis Bacon
#81. Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth Lloyd
#82. The concept of "social justice," which purports to promote equality among the lines of gender and ethnicity, is based on intersectional feminist theory. Per the theory, certain classes of people are naturally oppressors, while others are victims. There's nothing more divisive than that.
Ian Miles Cheong
#83. Consciousness is cerebral celebrity
nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects
on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.
Daniel Dennett
#84. Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.
Cyprian
#85. There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
Ben Hecht
#86. There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.
John F. Kennedy
#87. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
Paulo Coelho
#89. For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.
Isaac Newton
#90. Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Alexander Pope
#91. There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
Francis Bacon
#92. I've always had the feeling that nothing is impossible is one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction. If you want to do it, you can do it.
Nellie Bly
#93. Lady Mary nodded and smiled sadly. "There is nothing in this life that is certain but death," she stated pensively.
"And tariffs, Mama," added Jerome. At that Lady Mary laughed.
Jocelyn Murray
#94. I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.
Simon Bird
#95. Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so.
Clint Eastwood
#96. One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
R. Kent Hughes
#97. Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
Robert Benton
#98. I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things. Let your heart speak, question faces, do not listen to tongues.
Umberto Eco
#99. Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
Jonathan Edwards
#100. A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
David Ayer
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