Uncertain Quotes - Page 25

• No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Loyal, Conjecture

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• How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Blood, Lulls

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• Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Men, Class, Looks

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• If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, World, Firsts

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Doors, Purple

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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