Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Fred A. Allen I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Anita Loos I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Flannery O'Connor I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
    Source: The Man Who Was Thursday
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Source: Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
    Thomas Taylor
     
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
    Source: News summaries (29 August 1955)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Antisthenes I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Lord George Byron I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
    Source: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1833)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    Source: The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • A. P. Herbert I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Leo Durocher I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
    Leo Durocher
    American professional baseball player, manager and coach (1905 - 1991)
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  • Golda Meir I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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