Certainty In Life Quotes

• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Certainty Of Death, Two, Add

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• The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Fun, Life Is

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• I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

  Pope Francis

  Drug, Trying, Vices

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

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• The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life Is, Certainty, Uncertainty

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• Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

  Ben Whishaw

  Choices, Next, Situation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Change, Believe, Life Is

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• The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

  Mark Twain

  Certainty Of Death, Taxes, Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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• For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

  Stanislav Grof

  Death, Heart, Keys

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• The only certainty life contains is death.

  Patricia Briggs

  Certainty Of Death, Certainty

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• The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

  Ashley Montagu

  Believe, Science, Religion

  "Science and Creationism". Book by Ashley Montagu (Introduction, p. 9), 1984.

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• Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

  Dan Ellis

  Heart, God Is In Control, Absolute Certainty

  "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.

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• It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Trouble, Certainty, Ifs

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• What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

  George Meredith

  Soul, Hot, Answers

  Modern Love st. 50 (1862)

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• I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Fate, Manipulate, I Realized

  Bethenny Frankel (2012). “Skinnydipping: A Novel”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

  Willy Russell

  Life Is, Should, Persons

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• I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

  Yehuda Berg

  Fathers Day, Voice, Path

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• “Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

  Mark Leyner

  Reading, Writing, Babe

  "Mark Leyner On “War, Inc.”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Happiness, Real, Principles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

  Andres Serrano

  Thinking, Normal, Would Be

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