Best desire & certainty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.”

Men Want Desire Turns Causes Certainty Assured

Book:Emperor of Thorns

Source: Emperor of Thorns

“There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.”

Desire Danger Certainty

Book:In Defense of Politics

Source: In Defense of Politics

“The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.”

Source: On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will

“This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.”

May Desire Passion Sea Objects Lovers Certainty Absent Fickle Dubious Objects Of Desire

Author:Tobsha Learner

“We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.”

Desire Misery Certainty Uncertainty Incapable

Book:Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

“Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.”

Needs Desire Turns Universe Absolutes Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Sonia

“A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.”

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