"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

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Pliny the Elder

#Matter Quotes #Certain Quotes #Certainty Quotes

“You're safe only when you can't see anybody.”
“Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.”
“From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.”
“Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.”
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese
“I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.”

Source : "Removing Illegal Immigrants: The Key to Job Creation?". "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. October 3, 2011.
“He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their job to need us. In my experience it is almost always the other way around.”
“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.”

Source : MTV News Online, 1992.

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