#certainty

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. ↗

— Al Stewart

#days #down #eternity #far #here

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#sex #uncertainty #death

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#charge #part #process #taking #uncertainty

Investors don't like uncertainty. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#like #uncertainty

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. ↗

— James Lovelock

#god #i #know #religion #requires

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#driven #end #ever #sail #sphere

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#battles #certain #certainty #how #many

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#accomplish #anything #beliefs #certain #certainty

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#certainty #nothing #only