Not Sure Quotes - Page 39

• Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

  Berton Braley

  Pride, Position, Snobbery

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• I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

  Marilyn Manson

  Weed, Dog, Marijuana

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• I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Wisdom, Betrayal, Advice

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

  Montel Williams

  Travel, Couple, Race

  "Interview: Montel Williams". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm not sure about the parties. But whatever they have in Korea, that's bad.

  Justin Bieber

  Party, Cocky, Korea

  "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Politics, Music and Puberty In New 'Rolling Stone' Cover Story". Interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Hands, Order

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

  Steve Case

  Business, Doors, Entrepreneur

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• I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ignorance, Imagine, Economics

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• We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Honesty, Teaching

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• My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Father, Sibling

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• We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Inspirational, Life, Mistake

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• I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry; they will be products of technology. Where else can they come from?

  George M. Keller

  Technology, Environmental, Problem

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• I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Bored, Trying, Able

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• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Lying, Believe, Suicidal

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• He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

  T. S. Eliot

  Typewriters, Long, Crafts

  T. S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.240, Faber & Faber

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• The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

  Paul McCartney

  Nice, Animal, Thinking

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• Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Swimming, Years, Events

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• I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Years, Voting Age

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2008.

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• It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Laughing, Theologian

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6560, Delphi Classics

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• I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Constitution, Consent

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!

  Tove Jansson

  Writing, Adventure, Childhood

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• If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Powerful

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2018

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