155 Surely Quotes

Following is our list of surely quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about tomorrow is not sure.

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Famous Surely Quotes

When we are not sure, we are alive. — Graham Greene

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. — Margaret Drabble

There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. — Proverbs

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. — Marc Maron

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. - Robert Burns

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns

The more I see the less I know for sure. - John Lennon

The more I see the less I know for sure. — John Lennon

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy. — Sayings

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. — Scotty Bowman

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

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out. — Donal Logue

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." — Werner Heisenberg

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. — Theodore Hesburgh

Indecision may or may not be my problem. - Jimmy Buffett

Indecision may or may not be my problem. — Jimmy Buffett

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. — Pliny The Elder

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. — Chinese Proverbs

Short Surely Quotes

  • Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein
  • Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again. — Saddam Hussein
  • Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. — Abraham Lincoln
  • How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi‘i
  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein
  • Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir
  • Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. — Jerry Gillies
  • One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching. — Gerard Way
  • Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy — Paulo Coelho
  • The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Surely Image Quotes

Surely quote Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. - Buddha quote

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. - Sigmund Freud quote

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly - Peter Cook quote

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly — Peter Cook

Surely quote Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fac
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.
Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too. - Chris Brown quote

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too. — Chris Brown

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Surely quote If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. - Emo Philips quote

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. — Emo Philips

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. - George Harrison quote

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. — George Harrison

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? - M. C. Escher quote

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? — M. C. Escher

Surely quote If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls. - Lottie Moon quote

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls. — Lottie Moon

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. - James Baldwin quote

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. — James Baldwin

I've made mistakes in my life for sure. - Kim Kardashian quote

I've made mistakes in my life for sure. — Kim Kardashian

Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do. - David Belle quote

Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do. — David Belle

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. - Markus Zusak quote

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. — Markus Zusak

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. - Joseph Parry quote

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. — Joseph Parry

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. - Mark Twain quote

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. — Mark Twain

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. - Gale Norton quote

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. — Gale Norton

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely. - Cheikh Anta Diop quote

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely. — Cheikh Anta Diop

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. - Gloria Swanson quote

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. — Gloria Swanson

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. - Cornelia Funke quote

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. — Cornelia Funke

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte quote

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Surely quote One day you life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching.
One day you life will flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching.

If You Are Not Sure Quotes

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

If you want to communicate something, youd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody. — Stefan Sagmeister

On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track. ... They would have you believe that if they get into office, they are going to make sure that they are going to get rid of everyone in our society who was not born in America. — Maxine Waters

Surely quote Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact la
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger. — Arjuna Ranatunga

In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda. — Jesse Eisenberg

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend. — Dwight L. Moody

Surely quote If someone offers you and amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then lear
If someone offers you and amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.

If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football. — Charles Woodson

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. — Henry Ward Beecher

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you. — James Earl Jones

Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want? — Trish Stratus

Tomorrow Is Not Sure Quotes

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow. — Azzedine Alaia

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised. — Peyton Manning

The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters. — Seth Godin

One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. — Catherynne M. Valente

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values. — Hillary Clinton

Life Is Not Sure Quotes

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. — Frederick Buechner

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. — T. S. Eliot

The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans. — George Meany

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. — Neal Shusterman

To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing, you may not think He’s working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life. — Joel Osteen

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something — Francis Ford Coppola

I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. — David Hockney

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you. — Confucius

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. — Ole Hallesby

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization. — William Booth

I'm Not Sure Quotes

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest. — Kendrick Lamar

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. — John Wayne

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean! — Bob Marley

I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason. — Joe Budden

Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt. — Beth Moore

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event. — Wright Thompson

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it. — Jeremy Northam

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure. - Bob Woodward

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure. — Bob Woodward

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. — Frank Gehry

When You Are Not Sure Quotes

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. — L. Frank Baum

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback. — Len Wein

When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. — David Whyte

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself. — Paulo Coelho

But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself. — Richard Llewellyn

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that. — John Lennon

I'm not sure why we romanticize 'young love,' or love in general...It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you. — Randall Munroe

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. — A. A. Milne

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts. — Martin Luther

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. — Unknown

Not Sure How To Feel Quotes

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other. — Nat Hentoff

[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it. — Keira Knightley

Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better." "Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead." How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better. — Simone Elkeles

Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack. — Dov Davidoff

I feel like since I've had a child I've become a better problem-solver, because you just have to! I have to be positive for him for sure, but it's not even about thinking about it. It's just how to make this work, and it can get pretty nutty, but it's fun too! — Carrie Underwood

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop. — Toni Braxton

It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too. — Cameron Diaz

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started. — Edward Norton

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice. — Cat Cora

I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel. — John Green

Not Sure Anymore Quotes

we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore. — Anita Hill

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. — Diane Frolov

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship. — George Michael

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up. — Gayle Forman

I don't really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser. — Kate Moss

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore. — Nigel Farage

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there. — Bradley Cooper

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore. — Annie Lennox

All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now. — Alija Izetbegovic

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all. — Yoko Ono

Not Sure Relationship Quotes

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals. — Jess C Scott

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change. — Mary McAleese

Sure! A relationship with the Almighty is not impossible. We must realize that one's approach to the Presence of Almighty Being, who is absolutely unseen, is possible by means of fortification of spiritual power via one's complete faith in His Self-reliant Being. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this. — Maggie Nelson

Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence. — Quentin S. Crisp

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made. — Danielle Dutton

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that. — Tim Gunn

We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together But we sure make it feel like we're together. Cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else — Drake

Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now....Certainly I'll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through. — Bret Lott

Unsure Quotes

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. — Bette Davis

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior. — James Clear

Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love. — Marci Shimoff

Usually a very long list of securities is not a sign of the brilliant investor, but of one who is unsure of himself. — Philip Arthur Fisher

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. — Nigel Farage

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time. — Louis C. K.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself. — Ann Landers

When you’re unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open — Yasmin Ahmad

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More Surely Quotes

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out. — Al Capone

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — Sigmund Freud

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time — William Shakespeare

I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out. — Lewis Grizzard

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. — Noam Chomsky

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection. — Queen Victoria

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism. — Francisco Franco

To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it. — Sonakshi Sinha

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully. — Ignatius of Loyola

Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. — Nizar Qabbani

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