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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. — Bertrand Russell

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist. — Orson Scott Card

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross. — Oswald Chambers

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else. — Jean De La Bruyere

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. — Guy Finley

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain — Gilbert K. Chesterton

What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death. — Stephen R. Lawhead

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain — Pliny The Elder

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard. — Confucius

Nothing in the world is as certain as death. — Jean Froissart

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain. — Pliny The Elder

Nothing is certain in London but expense. — William Shenstone

Those who rely on certainties are certain to be disappointed — R.A. Salvatore

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young. — Johnny Depp

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man. — Pliny The Elder

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought. — Albert Ellis

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain. — Carolyn Mackler

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. — E. M. Forster

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. — Samuel Butler

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness. — Alexander Pope

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. — Seneca The Younger

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
tone in which they are uttered. — Paul Bourget

I will follow this strategy until I discover something that is certain or, at least, until I discover that it is certain only that nothing is certain. — Rene Descartes

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. — Thomas Wolfe

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death.
- Jean-Claude — Laurell K. Hamilton

I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things. Let your heart speak, question faces, do not listen to tongues. — Umberto Eco

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain. — Plutarch

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything. — Arthur Symons

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing. — Albert Einstein

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. — Vaclav Havel

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy. — Richard Barnfield

They say that nothing is certain but death and taxes, and I already screwed one of those up, so I better pay my taxes.... — Edmund Alexander Sims

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain. — John F. Kennedy

Nothing under Providence is ever certain until an agent goes and tries and makes it so. — Ada Palmer

Nothing is certain by uncertainty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing is certain but the truth — David G. Allen

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred. — Seneca The Younger

With every day that passes by, I realize more and more
That regardless of the reasons why, when nothing's certain, change is sure. — S.M. Royston

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. — Seth Lloyd

And yet Nothing here is certain; — Mark Strand

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation. — Agatha Christie

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. — Ben Hecht

Nothing is ever certain. — Alice Sebold

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. — Francis Bacon

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives. — Elizur Wright

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out. — Iris Murdoch

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

When nothing is certain - and nothing ever is - choose to be happy. — Mo Gawdat

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. — Baltasar Gracian

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain. — George R R Martin

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain. — Robert Dallek

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man. — Michel De Montaigne

Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up. — George A. Sheehan

Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil. — Laurell K. Hamilton

In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Barbara W. Tuchman

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change. — John F. Kennedy

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. — John F. Kennedy

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain. — Joshua Edward Smith

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying — Thomas Paine

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? — Mark Steyn

When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you. — Wayne Dyer

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. — Francis Bacon

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain. — William Boyd

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being. — Jonathan Edwards

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The only thing certain is nothing is certain. — Michel De Montaigne

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight — Horatio Nelson

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. — Thomas Aquinas

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — Carl Sagan

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture. — David Ayer

And I realize that there is nothing to worry about without first wanting to be alive a certain way.
That is somewhat relaxing to think. — Sam Pink

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots. — Richard Sibbes

Nothing is as certain as a closed mind — Lord Dunsany

Is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.Nat. Hist., ii. 7.] — Michel De Montaigne

No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person's true destiny. — Stephen Whitfield

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. — Michael K. Simpson