“ People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me. ”
- Kate Capshaw- Copy
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“ It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government policies will work. ”
- Allen W. Wallis- Copy
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“ We are definitely slowing down and charging a lot more for it. We are out of Las Vegas. We are very much out of Miami, and we are hesitant in New York City. ”
- Brian Harris- Copy
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“ Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. ”
- Lady Nancy Astor- Copy
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“ An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. ”
- Thomas Keneally- Copy
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“ If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention. ”
- Simon Cowell- Copy
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“ If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job. ”
- John Berry- Copy
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“ Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. ”
- Lord Beaverbrook- Copy
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“ O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. ”
- Theodore Hesburgh- Copy
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“ A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper — a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ All uncertainly is fruitful… so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand. ”
- Antonio Machado- Copy
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“ Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. ”
- Lord Dunsany- Copy
- 593
“ Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at. ”
- Sir Arthur Helps- Copy
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“ Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. ”
- Etty Hillesum- Copy
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“ That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 841
“ The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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