Quotes About No Guessing

#1. There's no guessing when it comes to being in love, there's just knowing.

Michele L. Rivera

#2. Dear, you need to know something about love. When you love someone, you know it. When someone loves you, you know it. There is no question, no wondering, and no guessing. Love is felt within you, and if that is not there then it is very obvious.

Lorena Bathey

#3. History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

Barry Ritholtz

#4. You can never tell about a person by guessing ... that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Alice Hoffman

#5. Raffe nods to one of the Watchers who then takes position below us. I'm guessing he's there to catch me if I fall. "Don't you dare let me go," I say.

Susan Ee

#6. You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

Michelle Moran

#7. My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Jude Law

#8. Even when you do the right thing, sometimes there are dire consequences. Second-guessing every step prevents any forward momentum. Trust yourself, forgive yourself and move on.

A.G. Howard

#9. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#10. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

Stephen Hawking

#11. Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

Mark Twain

#12. The man stood back, not sure what to think. That was my secret weapon. Confuse 'em and keep 'em guessing long enough to run away. I

Darynda Jones

#13. Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Anthony Burgess

#14. It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Mary E. DeMuth

#15. I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Jim Courier

#16. A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

Mark Twain

#17. Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.

Rachel Vincent

#18. You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?

David Sedaris

#19. Other people's perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves

Lisa Renee Jones

#20. I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Yani Tseng

#21. I'm guessing the only reason he messed with me tonight was because he just got out, and any woman would do. Any hole's a goal, right?

Alexa Riley

#22. Allan had always reasoned about religion that if you couldn't know for sure then there was no point in going around guessing.

Jonas Jonasson

#23. That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

Simon Pegg

#24. 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

#25. You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself
theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

Ellen Page

#26. You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. I'm guessing this isn't the Mississippi," I said.
"The River of Night," Bloodstained Blade hummed. "It is every river and no river - the shadow of the Mississippi, the Nile, the Thames. It flows throughout the Duat, with many branches and tributaries."
"Clears that right up," I muttered.

Rick Riordan

#28. No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.

Clint Van Winkle

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

Cindy Gerard

#33. 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

#34. Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

Neale Donald Walsch

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. In this trunk," she says with a serious face, "is God's gift to women."
"Chocolate?"
"No."
"Midol?"
"What? No."
"Tampons?"
"Stop guessing," she says.

Victoria Scott

#38. Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

Andrew Plotkin

#39. But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,
O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

Ann Radcliffe

#40. I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway.

Bill Maher

#41. There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#42. Only one without a weapon is Peeta, but anyone whispering my name with a bunch of mutts doesn't need one anyway. We leave the room free of everything but our scent. There's no way to erase that at the moment. I'm guessing that's how the hissing things are tracking us,

Suzanne Collins

#43. No one knows the future, yet we can't stop guessing while expecting of only the good, and not the bad or even both.

Auliq Ice

#44. Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Blake Edwards

#45. I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

Joan Jett

#46. Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worst than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.

Peter Watts

#47. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

Jennifer Senior

#48. Black is my favorite color. It's limitless. It's indefinable. It keeps you guessing. When there's nothing to see, you're forced to imagine. It makes every shape, every person more mysterious because you can't see all the details.

Katie Kacvinsky

#49. Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

Barry Ritholtz

#50. It's going to be crazy. I'm guessing when we play against the Dominicans, half the field will be Dominican fans and half will be Puerto Rican fans. With all the big-time players in the World Classic, it's going to be huge.

Carlos Beltran

#51. Welcome to the Midwest, Mom used to say. Where the weather keeps you guessing and you're almost always sure to hate it.

Jennifer Brown

#52. app, 'Functional Ear Trainer' which isn't like any other ear trainer in the way that it teaches you relative pitch in the context of cadences instead of just guessing random intervals. Check out the creator's website here. And

Graham Tippett

#53. You have a memory chip that small implanted in you, he verified.
I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.

James Patterson

#54. If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?

Richard Hamming

#55. Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

Bobby Adair

#56. We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot down almost as soon as it was made. The suggestions became wilder, eventually to the point of silliness.

Donald G. Firesmith

#57. Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

Michael Crichton

#58. Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Antonio Machado

#59. One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Lisa Kleypas

#60. Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Gregory Maguire

#61. Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. There are so many paths in life. Some we choose, and some are chosen for us. We walk our paths without looking down and that's the life we lead. The only things you'll get from guessing where another path would have gone are questions you can't answer and heartache you can't ever soothe.

Abigail Roux

#63. Lemurs?" Frank asked nervously. "I'm guessing you don't mean the furry little guys from Madagascar?

Rick Riordan

#64. Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Jack O'Neill

#65. Well, I'm guessing hat in about two centuries or so, humans will discover zero space and make transponders. Whatever they are. But in the meantime, I'm going to have a sandwich."

-Animorphs #5, The Predator page 34

K.A. Applegate

#66. To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Wallace Stevens

#67. You get frustrated when you don't win and when you're not successful. You have to keep battling. You don't give up. You don't start second guessing yourself.

Daunte Culpepper

#68. They Call her the Devourer."
"I'm guessing she's not a unicorn princess.

Zoraida Cordova

#69. Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

Clark Gregg

#70. Knowledge may have its purposes,
but guessing is always
more fun than knowing.

W. H. Auden

#71. I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

Linda Hogan

#72. I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be.

Arlene Dickinson

#73. A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

Keith Devlin

#74. Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.

Laurie R. King

#75. How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said.
'I was just guessing.'
'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Jodi Thomas

#76. Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret ... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.

Devin Hester

#77. Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the young people. They don't have the debilitating self-loathing and the second guessing.

Janeane Garofalo

#78. I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Katherine Heigl

#79. One of you brothers, I'm guessing?'
'Yep. The mean one. Oh, wait, they're all mean.' She grinned. 'You are so fucked.

Larissa Ione

#80. Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'

Steve Erickson

#81. It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

Sara Sheridan

#82. Life is pointless. Love is pointless. And still, wouldn't I do every second of it all over again?"
"I'm guessing yes."
"Undoubtedly. Yes.

Kiera Cass

#83. It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

George Archer

#84. When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed

Melanie Greenberg