Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

We have had inquiries all week but they reached a crescendo this morning - the odds suggest the happy couple are a certainty to get married.

Martin Frost

Management conveyed that if they didn't have certainty that things are settled with the unions, they will be looking at bankruptcy,

Title Two, on the whole, is a good statute. It provides a degree of certainty for service providers, so that they know what their exposures are.

We are providing the shareholders of Guidant with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Yehuda Berg

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Yehuda Berg

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance

Bart was, like a lot of people who were converted to fundamental evangelicalism, converted to the certainty of it all, of having all the answers. When he found out they were lying to him, he just didn't want anything to do with it.

I would say no company has a lot of visibility past a couple of quarters all you can have is a framework. No question that going out a couple of years is really hard to do, and the level of certainty you can predict two years from now is lower than even what you can predict in the current quarter.

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

If we delayed the move, we would have turned certainty into uncertainty.

I don't know that we have any certainty about what's going to happen in the future.

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Whether top-down or bottoms-up, the facts today point but in one direction: that of sustained, significantly above-trend growth at least through the end of 2000, with virtual certainty of vigorous growth through 2001 and even the likelihood for continued expansion though 2002 as well,

To move from uncertainty to certainty we need good strategic research - and fast.

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

We're happy to provide habitat for fish and wildlife species, ... But we wanted some regulatory certainty and stability.

Benjamin Franklin

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Carl Sandburg

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The only reason people want water rights is to have certainty to what their place in line is.

We want to have some certainty that we're going to continue. It's a little unclear, at least in my mind, what council's direction will be.

The only certainty is that there is consciousness

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

We are not going to speculate on what may happen. The only certainty of next week is that the generators will continue to charge high prices for the power they sell to California.

Our preference is the sooner the better. People in the markets prefer certainty versus uncertainty.

I think they're waiting for Cisco, but they're also injecting their own level of certainty about the third quarter as being the turning point for the front end of technology stocks,