Quotes of: Sure-thing Keyword

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Gavin Bryars

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Mitch Hedberg

I'm sure that blondes have more fun, but I think that as a brunette I might work more.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

Patti LuPone

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

T. Boone Pickens

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Michael Ignatieff

Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the figure of a man. His steps go with “him” in the same reality, But I look at him and them, and they’re two things: The “man” goes walking with his id...

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their students would be drafted and sent to war. I was curious because for sure we’d started treating our military kids different...

The Day Before 9/11

Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to ...

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

9 likes Like Facebook_icon “Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything. What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND...

Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individual...

East of Eden

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear...

Ender's Game

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never...

The Golden Notebook

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeles...

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

Ask yourself something. Have you ever thought about why guys want you gone the next day? It’s not because they’ve got things to do, though I’m sure there are a few assholes who think like that, either because they repeated the folly so often th...

Greed

No offense, doll, but that’s not something I’m willing to share. I’d prefer to live a long and happy life if it’s all the same to you.” “You can’t just throw out vague allegations and then say nothing else!” “See, that’s the good ...

Beyond Reach

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you ...

Alice in Rapture, Sort of

You're a big boy, No. You'll figure something out. Just make sure it includes the groveling." -Abby It come to all of us. Especially those of us foolish enough to fall in love with women who have minds of their own. If you will recall, your own siste...

Howl at the Moon

Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all wom...

How Green Was My Valley

The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I still can’t find words to describe. But sooner or later you have to make ...

The Rainy Season