A barrel full of certainties won't roll very far.


Gerd de Ley

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We wont get something without giving something, We wont give something without getting something, an...
LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU
Happier than a terrier in a barrel full of rats
TERRY PRATCHETT
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
MURRAY GELL-MANN
Every single human being on earth is successful by definition, since his/her birth and hence has not...
VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel
JOHN LYLY
A far more muscular use of the SPR is what is needed at a time when oil is over $70 a barrel.
CHUCK SCHUMER
When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL JR.
When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL CORDERO JR.
Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away, Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber, De...
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition ...
ALAN SUGAR
Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
THOMAS GRAY
Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
HORACE GREELEY
Barrel of a Gun
DEPECHE MODE
When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER
You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust em...
REX TILLERSON
Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The $100 barrel price is very much wishful thinking on Venezuela's part.
JULIAN LEE
Prof. Gerd Gleixner said “ Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in ord...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
So far it's been an easy roll, with interest rates rising at a steady gradual pace.
LAURENCE MEYER
Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. I...
TERRY PRATCHETT
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON
Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorabl...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
GAIL SHEEHY
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
ERICH FROMM
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties
GAIL SHEEHY
A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.
JULES FEIFFER
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON
Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
RICHARD H. TAWNEY
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to b...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
SIR FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
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FRANCIS BACON SR.
Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles vo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
The contracts were signed when a barrel of oil cost 18.0 or 19.0 dollars, whereas nowadays a barrel ...
EVO MORALES
Many theories and certainties have failed the ‪Test of Time‬....jh
JIMBO HENDERSON
The most lasting wound was invisible but persistent: The knowledge of Persephone’s death hummed co...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The first step is always identifying both the certainties and uncertainties.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
I'm very in tune with that. When a guy gets on a roll and stays on a roll for a little while, you ri...
JIM TRACY
Terrorists kill from far, but cowardice is not far. (Les terroristes tuent de loin, - Mais la lâche...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is pe...
ISAIAH BERLIN
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
I would encourage you to roll through the over-achievement from the third (quarter) to your full yea...
MARK LOUGHRIDGE
Wine is wont to show the mind of man.
THEOGNIS
Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail. In the long run of history, the censo...
ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONG
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO TSE-TUNG
Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
JOEY RAMONE
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
HELEN THOMAS
I wont be labeled as average
RACHEL JOY SCOTT
We had missteps that we wont repeat.
ASAKO MIYATA
I wont eat anything green
KURT COBAIN
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
FRANCIS BACON
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
FRANCIS BACON
The fire escaped the barrel and the conditions were such, very windy, very hot, very dry, that the f...
ED WALDAPFEL
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of...
DONALD RUMSFELD
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pec...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
WILLIAM REDDINGTON HEWLETT
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
CHARLES W. ELIOT
All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.
MILAN KUNDERA
There are few certainties in life, one of which is: life is short.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
We want $25 a barrel.
CHAKIB KHELIL
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certain...
H.L. MENCKEN
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certain...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
REX TILLERSON
Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorro...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun.
DAN ALLEN
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun.
JOE BASTARDI
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
PAUL AUSTER
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
PROVERB
We were a little scared of using piano. We just didn't think it was very rock and roll.
CHAD KROEGER
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Mesha...
BIBLE
Three trucks full of stuff ready to roll whenever the call comes in. They even have portable generat...
ED EMERSON
We love far too little for a species to give love full credence.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON
I am from the oil industry and remember when the price was $US10 (a barrel) in 1999 and everyone was...
ANDREW BLAKELY
Nature is wont to hide herself.
HERACLITUS
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
TAHEREH MAFI
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
HELEN THOMAS
We're staring down the barrel of $4 a gallon for gas.
BEN BROCKWELL
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeterie...
DONALD RUMSFELD
I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.
SUTTON FOSTER
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had...
BRIDGET RILEY
It's far easier to deny an appeal if it's just a letter, or an email. It's always a roll of the dice...
CARL BUCK
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERT
Be as thou wast wont to be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They felt they were over a barrel.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND