Quotes About Sureness

#1. She did not hate Miss Garnder anymore. She didn't like her, but she felt sorry for her. Miss Garnder had nothing in all the world excepting a sureness about how right she was.

Betty Smith

#2. He's cocky but wounded, charming but lonely, with the sureness of a wealthy man and the desperation of a pauper. I can't figure him out, but one thing is certain. Daren is not as tough or undamaged as he lets on.

Chelsea Fine

#3. The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Rumi

#4. For the first time in his life, Roland found himself hating his own childhood. He wished for the size and calluses and sureness of age.

Stephen King

#5. There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

Fred Bear

#6. A true personality ... is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Gustav Mahler

#7. But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. (Newland Archer of Countess Olenska)

Edith Wharton

#8. Russell, the gallant knight, with sureness of spirit and the smile of the gods, was carrying the woman who raised
him into the rainy night. I was Paladin, Tristan and King David.

James Aura

#9. There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

Anne Bernays

#10. Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Nathanael West

#11. I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Gloria Steinem

#12. The uniform of the gladdest malt is its sureness.

Kenneth Koch

#13. My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#14. Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.

Kadiatou Diallo

#16. Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Denise Levertov

#17. A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.

Elizabeth Bowen

#18. Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

Nellie Fox

#19. She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.

Anais Nin

#20. No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

Rod McKuen

#21. Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.

Helen Shucman

#22. A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be ... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

Sarah Bernhardt

#23. What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.

Roshani Chokshi

#24. Father Paul was at the start of life. His glassy convictions needed protection. They waited patiently until he too, succumbed to the unbearable unevenness of God's will, the sureness of his grace, the darkness of his mercy.

Kathleen Tessaro

#25. She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#26. I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

Martin Buber

#27. True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

Anthony Liccione

#30. Why trade definite for a maybe?

Carlos Wallace