Sureties Quotes & Sayings

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. — James Beattie

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done. — Marianne Williamson

We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel. — Steven Furtick

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes. — Ellen Pompeo

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns. — Jimmy Smith

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. — Lucille Clifton

It took me a while to work out what it was; love - the kind of love that shouldn't exist for two sixteen year olds. It's almost too much. Too heavy. Too soon. I used to worry about what could be left. What is there to look forward to when you fall in this kind of love when you're so young? And then I worked it out. Forever. I have forever to look forward to. — Jay McLean

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone. — Ray Bradbury

Life is a gamble. There are no sureties. If you want something badly, you'd have to trust your heart and your instincts and then take a leap of faith. — Alyssa Urbano

When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash. — Bruce Berkowitz

This is a hard question. But as women we have a right to ask the hard questions. The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited. — Sue Monk Kidd

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation ... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me. — Truman Capote

We should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties. — John Piper