Top 100 Quotes About Guessing
#1. I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I'm guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn't there.
Jennifer Egan
#2. She had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow for second-guessing.
Joshua Ferris
#4. It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.
George Eliot
#5. He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.
James Patterson
#6. Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.
Martin Henderson
#7. This whole thing," I said "is going to come down to guessing who isn't what they look like."
"Who is?" Karrin asked, her hands moving surely over the weapon. "Ever.
Jim Butcher
#8. The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden
#9. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.
John Bellairs
#10. He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma.
Lucy Robinson
#11. Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.
Pink
#12. I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.
Howard Coble
#13. Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.
Jeff Ross
#14. Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
Julia Cameron
#15. I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.
Timothy Dalton
#17. The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
Criss Jami
#18. History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant
#19. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
#20. Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.
Usama Fayyad
#21. eyes. "Trust only those who fear you more than God. You got one life to live and don't waste it second-guessing yourself.
Tony Steele
#22. I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid
#23. Though a degree from Yale was not required, Pinchot wanted his foresters to be able to write well, for the numerous reports that their enemies in Congress would be second-guessing.
Timothy Egan
#24. To be honest, Nick, I'd be surprised to hear these three speaking of having their heart stolen ... with an attitude like this ... I'm guessing this lot is much more interested in who will be the first man to have his heart stolen
they don't seem the wallflower type.
Sarah MacLean
#25. You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush
#26. The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof, but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by GUESSING.
George Polya
#27. Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop second guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don't know what you have until you've finished it. You don't know how to fix it until it's all down on the page.
Lauren Beukes
#28. Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.
Jean Edward Smith
#29. Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.
Gene Kranz
#30. As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.
Wes Craven
#31. A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
Michael Fassbender
#33. I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part - which is more than enough to keep us busy.
Peter Enns
#34. Bridget reckons John Lennon wrote a song about her. I'm guessing it was 'Give Peace a Chance'.
Bridget Golightly
#35. Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
H.W. Brands
#36. Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." she waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth be told, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago." speaking meow? "I'm guessing calling you pretty kitty is out.
Gena Showalter
#37. Oh, before I get carried away with my news - how are you? I hope you're doing all right and not second-guessing your decision to back away from your marriage plans. Honestly, though, I've been doing some of that here, but for different reasons, of course. Well,
Beverly Lewis
#38. I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.
Michael Socha
#39. I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.
Scott Turow
#40. We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.
Orson Scott Card
#41. There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.
Gordie Howe
#42. Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
John Updike
#43. A face-lift is a woman's attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#44. The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.
George W. Bush
#45. Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.
Nick Clegg
#46. Miller slapped the magazine back into his gun and chambered a round. "I'm guessing there's a lot more people need to be shot before this is over," he
James S.A. Corey
#47. I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either."
"Put your books away and I'll show you.
Richelle Mead
#48. My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.
Tom Hiddleston
#49. So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask.
"No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.
Katie Kacvinsky
#50. organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses.
John Kay
#51. I'm guessing you're tits deep in a horror novel. Something by Laymon, or Ketchum, or one of those sick fucks you read.
Kyle M. Scott
#52. Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,
these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.
Herrick Johnson
#53. Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
Julia Glass
#54. It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
Helen Rowland
#55. I've been reading up on management speak, and I'm guessing that where you say, 'somewhat clouded', what you really mean is 'totally down the pan and in the shit'?
Kate Griffin
#56. The more you understand how you receive guidance, the less time you will spend second guessing yourself and the more confidently you can be about the information you receive.
Catherine Carrigan
#57. Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?
Cindy Gerard
#58. Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.
Don Mattingly
#59. 'cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing.
Mary E. Pearson
#60. When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
Fred Ward
#61. I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.
Gary Shteyngart
#62. A year ago, I would've made fun of that guy, saying what a huge mistake he was making. Guessing how long the marriage would last. But then I met you and now I understand why he just got down on one knee in front of a room full of people and asked a girl to marry him.
Allie Everhart
#63. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#64. Lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid.
"Oh aye, most vile," I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat.
Philippa Gregory
#65. One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
Sarah Lacy
#66. I promised myself no regrets," she whispered into the darkness. "No what-ifs, no second guessing. I promised myself that I was going to live my life, instead of always taking the safe route.
Susan Mallery
#67. I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that's possibly why I'm quite camp, and some people think I'm gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It's always good to keep them guessing,
Daniel Radcliffe
#68. Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany ... After, I'm guessing, amnesia ...
Emo Philips
#69. Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
Pete Carroll
#70. Then I flip Kate the finger. Immature, I know, but apparently we're now both functioning at the preschool level, so I'm guessing it's okay. Kate sneers at me. Then she mouths, You wish. Well - she's got me there, now doesn't she?
Emma Chase
#71. Call my cell." He whipped out a card and passed it over. "Here's my number." I didn't bother to look at it. "I'm guessing 666- 6666." "Oh, right. As if that number weren't snatched up decades ago.
Rob Thurman
#72. Life is always going to keep us guessing; often it throws us for a complete loop.
Connor Franta
#73. David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.
Ruta Sepetys
#74. I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue
Christine Maggiore
#75. Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.
Sam Walton
#76. I'm guessing it has to do with embracing my destiny as future head of the Council and all.You know, Take Your Demon To Work Day.
Rachel Hawkins
#77. I have long left the notion of guessing the mind of God.
Amber Schamel
#78. When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
Jim Parsons
#79. Besides, tourists go out there all the time. The volcano can't be that dangerous."
"I'm guessing the tourists aren't trying to steal a forbidden object out from under the noses of evil witches."
"Not unless they've paid for the deluxe package".
Andrea Cremer
#81. Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment.
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
#82. Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#83. Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
John Singleton
#84. Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex.
It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.
Meg Cabot
#85. Don't be committed to the guess, be committed to the process of guessing.
Carl Richards
#86. That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.
Simon Pegg
#87. You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.
Sarah Manguso
#88. This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.
Sarah Dessen
#89. I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.
A. J. Cook
#90. In a Life that
stopped guessing,
you and I should
not feel at home
Emily Dickinson
#91. Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Greg Kinnear
#92. 'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'
Mike Moreno
#93. I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
David Ortiz
#94. You don't waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.
David Ayer
#96. Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.
Elvis Presley
#97. Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
Ishmael Beah
#98. I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.
John Scalzi
#99. Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.
Julian Barnes
#100. He had three
incision sites: one where the microscopic camera had gone in and
two where they'd done the actual work, and the abuse he'd taken
today went straight to her heart. "Oh, Pace."
"I'm guessing that wasn't an 'Oh, Pace, you're so sexy, take me.'
Jill Shalvis
