Top 100 Sure Of Quotes
#1. It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?
Bernhard Schlink
#2. evil or change that are sometimes marked there. It may take ten years to be sure of what we are seeing.' Firenze pointed to the red star directly above Harry.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of his own salvation? The reason that there are so few is, because they will not be saved upon God's terms.
Richard Baxter
#4. The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
Amelia Barr
#5. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. HEBREWS 11:1
Joel Osteen
#6. 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
#8. You'll always need me, Ava. I'm going to make sure of it. Now, let's see if we can fuck some sense into you.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#9. I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.
Mother Teresa
#10. Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.
Joseph Heller
#11. I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.
Jack Kerouac
#12. Nothing was more wonderful than waiting for a happiness you could be sure of.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
S.E. Hinton
#14. What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?
Richard Sibbes
#15. One thing i am sure of is that our brief conversation in the dark showed him who i really am. I am a dumb fuck.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#16. My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
Marion Cotillard
#17. We went down, and at the bottom there was a door, and on the door there was a sign. Two words. BE SURE. Sure of what? We were twelve, we weren't sure of anything.
Seanan McGuire
#18. But always remember, I am watching your every move and will be with all of you until the end of all things. Do not let your heart be troubled with the turmoil of the future. Be sure of one thing: the future is already written in the hidden stones of the hearts of those who said 'yes.
J.D. Netto
#19. 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
#20. I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.
Martin Luther
#21. Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Those who do deeds sovereignly great are always sure of being served by somebody in the multitude.
Victor Hugo
#23. It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
George MacDonald
#24. In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or the intention of your character's journey will be in the story. You don't have control. Sometimes that's wonderful, and sometimes that can be scary.
Shannyn Sossamon
#25. God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Bill Hybels
#26. Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
Art Spiegelman
#28. Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#29. 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
#30. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.
Dubravka Ugresic
#31. Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
Vidal Sassoon
#32. The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.
Alphonsus Liguori
#33. Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Julian Barnes
#34. 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
#35. I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work. I'm sure of that. There's no way.
Dean Wareham
#36. These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#37. It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels ...
Margaret Fuller
#38. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.
Steve Goodier
#39. You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.
James Mattis
#40. I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.
Flannery O'Connor
#41. My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
Dorothy Allison
#42. Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#43. One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.
Francisco Franco
#44. But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need.
Vladimir Nabokov
#46. After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
Brassai
#47. It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
Angelina Jolie
#48. Eddie, It's like you died that night, he whispers.
So that's it. I died.
I've been dead.
I blink back the tears and pick at the mattress, but I don't say anything. I don't know what I could say to him. I don't know how to convince him I'm still here when I'm not sure of it myself anymore.
Courtney Summers
#49. It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
John Amery
#50. Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1)
Anonymous
#51. The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#52. 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
#53. One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something
Francis Ford Coppola
#54. Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).
Armie Hammer
#55. Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this ... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.
Homer Hickam
#57. Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.
Alma Katsu
#58. the only thing you are sure of is that you aren't sure of anything any more.
Joe Poyer
#59. I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.
Tove Lo
#60. Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
Henry Ward Beecher
#61. I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.
Naomi Watts
#62. Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim Rohn
#63. People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof." --Ha Young, a North Korean defector
Jieun Baek
#64. Annabeth's hand slipped into mine. Under different circumstances I would've been embarrassed, but here in the dark I was glad to know where she was. It was about the only thing I was sure of.
Rick Riordan
#65. I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
Lord Byron
#66. I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#67. Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too.
Ramez Naam
#68. St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.
Wayne Dyer
#69. A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
B.F. Skinner
#70. How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
Sigmund Freud
#71. What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"
Jarvis Cocker
#72. Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
Will Cuppy
#73. Perhaps he was handsome, perhaps I liked him, perhaps I also found him repulsive, I could not be sure of that either.
Hermann Hesse
#74. They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
Barry Levinson
#75. 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
#76. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
Khalil Gibran
#77. The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
Georges Duhamel
#78. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#79. There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?'
Chelsea Handler
#80. 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
#81. Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet.
Honore De Balzac
#82. I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it.
Paul Mooney
#83. He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.
Katie Crouch
#84. Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength.
Ciruelo Cabral
#85. Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
Robin Hobb
#86. My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
Nicki Minaj
#87. 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
#88. I'm not sure of anything," he admitted.
"But I didn't mean to freak you out before. I just can't seem to keep my hands off you. I don't want to keep my hands off you."
~Wyatt
Sydney Croft
#89. In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
#90. I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
Stephen King
#91. The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.
Hugh Grant
#93. Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Aristotle.
#94. I am never more sure of myself about a topic than when I have absolutely no experience with it.
Shonda Rhimes
#95. The only thing I'm sure of is that I've waited entirely too damn long to have you.
Maya Banks
#96. Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
Sidney Howard
#97. It was clear, however, that the woman had in herself some secret source of joy, that she was now an aggressive, positive force, sure of herself, and apparently afraid of nothing in heaven or hell.
Algernon Blackwood
#99. Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.
Walt Disney Company
#100. I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections.
John O'Donohue
