#use

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. ↗

— Edward Coke

#certainty #contentions #mother #quiet #repose

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#absolute truth #although #because #definitively #help

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#come #funny #i #i do #lot

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. ↗

— Edward Coke

#house #houses #maxim #old #old ways

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#apart #argument #came #case #certainly

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#crush #day #different #different way #every

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#bio #cooler #found #i #i am

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#here #i #jokes #laugh #make

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face. ↗

— William Colby

#amount #because #destroy #face #go

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#because #continue #difficult #doing #getting