Top 100 So Sure Quotes
#1. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#2. What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy ... Are we? I'm not so sure.
David Suchet
#3. I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
#4. I'm not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I'm optimistic that we'll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.
Rod Humble
#6. There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#7. I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.
Pete Wentz
#8. I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
Stephen Fry
#9. Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
Lara St. John
#10. Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started
Robert M. Pirsig
#11. All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
Lemony Snicket
#12. Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire.
Judith McNaught
#13. Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.
Anne Fortier
#14. We're not really dating per se,' Leigh said. Nate grinned. 'I wouldn't be so sure about that, pretty lady. I know my brother's tastes and you definitely have the main ingredients. His eyes ate more than his mouth at dinner.
Destiny Booze
#15. Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.
Shelby Harris
#16. When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. - John Wesley
John Wesley
#17. In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
Charles E. Wilson
#18. I just thought I had to do it. You want this boy to like you, right? And he's so solid, so sure of himself. He knows what he wants: you. Besides, maybe if he touches you, you'll be real.
George Ella Lyon
#19. That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?
Ayn Rand
#20. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.
Leah Wilson
#21. Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
Philip Sidney
#22. I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.
George W. Bush
#23. College makes you smart. It doesn't make other people stupid. I'm not so sure it makes you so smart, to have a second say.
T. Geronimo Johnson
#24. This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. He will choose us," Julian said. "We are his family."
Kieran's eye shone. "I wouldn'tbe so sure, young Shadowhunter. Those of the Hunt are loyal to the Hunt."
"He isn't of the Hunt," Emma said. "He is a Blackthorn.
Cassandra Clare
#26. I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
Indra Nooyi
#27. Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Dan Simmons
#28. Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no. But in your case I'm not so sure. You still have feelings for her. -Virginia Dare
Michael Scott
#29. I'm uncomfortable holding [my gun] now, and I used to think that my discomfort would go away with time, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe it never will, and maybe that's all right.
Veronica Roth
#30. It's the other part I'm not so sure about. You got any advice for me on that, Lucan?"
"Sure." The vampire grunted, his smile filled with dark amusement. "Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.
Lara Adrian
#31. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
#32. He should have fucking known. He should have read Eve's damn case study, but he'd been so sure that he was right, that he couldn't possibly be wrong. Yeah, well, if I'd paid any attention to Eve's profile, I would have. She knew. But I was far too smart. I thought I had the fucker
Lexi Blake
#33. But that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.
Kristin Hannah
#34. I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn't so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.
Marilyn Manson
#35. There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Gertrude Stein
#36. I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I think some people are scared because they're worried it's going to ruin their career, but I want to live a full life.
Katy Perry
#37. The middle-aged woman she would have become, so sure of herself and her place in the world, bossy and loving, condescending and impatient with her dear old mum,
Liane Moriarty
#38. The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.
Richard Fliegel
#39. The rational scrutiny of religious faith involves asking believers only two questions: How do you know that? What makes you so sure that the claims of your faith are right and the claims of other faiths are wrong?
Jerry A. Coyne
#40. None are so sure in argument as those who know but the half [the situation]; none so hesitant as those who have been told the whole.
Christopher Webb
#41. I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about blind focus. I was so sure that I was doing exactly what I'd been put on this earth to do, and I would have done anything to make it onto that stage.
Tina Fey
#42. I could never understand how he always seemed so sure of himself. But now I did. It was because Connor really did know what kind of person he was. He had no regrets because he always shot from his heart.
Siobhan Vivian
#43. My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.
Derrick Bell
#44. I came to the conclusion that if a woman of the cloth could be so sure she was going to heave despite being such a massive asshole, God must be more lenient than I'd been led to believe.
Jessica Knoll
#45. I have always been so sure - too sure ... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know ... "
Agatha Christie
#46. Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#47. what I found difficult was the mixture of finger pointing and sanctimony in the whole piece, your righteous standpoint over the material, I wasn't so sure about that
Mike McCormack
#48. I don't even feel so sure of that any more. I mean, if we were a couple, he'd be here, wouldn't he? He'd be here with me.
Sophie Kinsella
#49. No defeat, no surrender
Ain't no pockets in a shroud
There is nothing so sure in life as death and taxes
Ninette Kelly
#50. Did you call someone and tell them you're safe?"
"Called and told 'em I'm not dead. Not so sure about safe
yet.
Jamie Farrell
#51. When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
George W. Bush
#53. I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.
Rand Paul
#54. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...
Christopher Hitchens
#55. Exactly. They dumped gasoline all over the gym and set fire to it. When no one was there training, luckily," Olympia says. "How can you be so sure it was them?" "They called me at home to let me know.
Pierdomenico Baccalario
#56. Next time, mind the time! So many people waste their time as if they are so sure of the next time, but no one is all that very sure, with all certainty, of what is in next time! Next time, mind the time!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#57. This doesn't change anything," I stammered, my defenses fading.
"It changes everything." He sounded so sure of himself as his soft lips silenced my weak protest.
J. Sterling
#58. In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."
Lowell Thomas
#59. I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better
Jorge Valdano
#60. It must be a wonderful thing to be so sure that you love somebody.
Haruki Murakami
#61. Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
Juliette Binoche
#62. We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.
Anneli Rufus
#63. God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#64. You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen."
"I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you.
Booth Tarkington
#65. In the early days, I used to see him all the time. Like, in the street, or I'd see a man in a bar and be
so sure it was him that my heart would start racing. I used to hear his voice in crowds. But that stopped,
a long time ago. Now, I think he might be dead.
Paula Hawkins
#66. Wellsie frowned. "I'd like you to stay away from him, okay? He's ... not right in a lot of ways. Do you know what I mean?"
Actually, John wasn't so sure about that. Yeah, the guy was enough to make you think fondly of the boogeyman sometimes, but clearly he wasn't all bad.
J.R. Ward
#67. There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie. And we promise that love forever. Forever and always
Jay McLean
#68. Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.
Rachel Weisz
#69. You won't hurt me. I know you won't." Logan said.
"How can you be so sure?" I whispered.
"Because you're that Gypsy girl, and I'm the bad-boy Spartan. And I think it's time we were finally together, don't you?
Jennifer Estep
#70. I'm not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train.
Jon Foreman
#71. I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.
Tim Gunn
#72. How can you be so sure that your life is the one that's charmed?
Jodi Picoult
#73. Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees.
Katherine Applegate
#74. There had been times when I thought I might be with you indefinitely, something approaching an entire life. But then when there was only a finite amount of time, a thing we could both see the limit of, I wasn't so sure.
Alexandra Kleeman
#75. They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?
Sara Douglass
#76. Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.
Marcus Sedgwick
#77. I just think you can't be so quick to be so sure of other people's situations. Examine your own situation. You also have a lot of choices. It's not always easier for other people. It doesn't work like that.
Jennifer Close
#78. I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
Jason Patric
#79. I lean over to him and put my palms on his smooth cheeks. "That's how I know you're still a boy. Because you're so sure." He
Jenny Han
#80. You don't think we're related?
What? Seth burst into laughter. No.
How can you be so sure? Because if we're pulling a Luke and Leia, I'm going to barf.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#81. What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.
Terry Teachout
#82. [white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.
Martha Southgate
#83. And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe? ... I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think. (p. 31)
Sabina Berman
#84. We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
Mercedes Lackey
#85. I am no longer afraid to face what is meant to be, but I am not so sure of what exactly I want for the future either.
Ramona Matta
#86. Guys think that the military associations of camo are going to make them look tough, as if they might just break out a shotgun and take down a passing duck at any given moment. I'm not so sure.
Russell Smith
#87. To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.
Bill Maher
#88. I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.
Aviv Nevo
#89. I haven't been so sure of anything since the time Mum asked me if I absolutely, definitely, certainly thought it was a good idea to practise doing cartwheels inside the house.
Joshua Donellan
#90. He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.
Gillian Flynn
#91. She thinks you married me for power," he said as they walked on. "Renee. As that's what she would've done. The power and the money is one in the same to her."
"She's wrong. I married you for the sex."
He grinned. "So sure of that am I that I work diligently to hold up my end of it.
J.D. Robb
#92. They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?
Richard Bachman
#93. Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#94. The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.
Conor McPherson
#95. You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
Cicely Tyson
#97. At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
Ben Nicholson
#98. Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.
Tintoretto
#99. Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.
Agatha Christie
#100. There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
Edward Heath
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