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21 " We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries. "
22 " The real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow are hidden to all. We however hope for a tomorrow to do what we have to do tomorrow because we think we shall surely have a tomorrow. Worry therefore not about tomorrow and understand instead that once there shall be a tomorrow, there shall be a good tomorrow. If there shall be a good tomorrow, then there shall be a good tomorrow for you. Stay positive! "
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23 " The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change? "
24 " My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice. "
― Paul Rudnick
25 " Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.(" Hard Candy" ) "
26 " In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need, rising and falling, falling and rising, full of doubts then certainties that moment by moment change and become doubts again. "
― Niall Williams , Four Letters of Love
27 " There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. "
28 " Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. "
― Julian Barnes , The Sense of an Ending
29 " Never be absolutely certain that either those claiming to be the terrorists, ot those accused of committing an act of terrorism, were the perpetrators. The only absolute certainties are forever victims. "
― Richard Bunning
30 " When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure. "
― , Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
31 " Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! "
32 " If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. "
33 " I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me. "
34 " The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. "
35 " 'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams. "
36 " I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. "
― Simone de Beauvoir
37 " The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us. "
