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Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
Davy Crockett

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'Rourke

Peace, Happiness, History

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
Colin Powell

Work, Government, Control

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne

Through, Earth, Walk

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner

Pain, True, Healing

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
Bo Bennett

Yourself, Ask, Questions

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
Clarence Darrow

Strong, Made, Themselves

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
Queen Latifah

Positive, Yourself, Example

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
Anthony Hopkins

Life, Time, Death

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
LeBron James

Hope, Home, Mom

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins

Fact, Looking, Read

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
Carlos Ghosn

Positive, Mind, Decision

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen

Next, Month, Mend

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg

Whether, Next, Gift

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Lord Byron

Nothing, Book, Name

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
Rose Kennedy

Good, Morning, Sleep

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.
Ellen DeGeneres

Fun, Happen, Give

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today, Strong, Tomorrow

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
Richard Pryor

Love, Family, Money

It sure is hell to be president.
Harry S. Truman

Hell, President

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut

Nature, Enemy, Friend

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

Self, Wild, Concerned

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein

Life, Great, Feeling

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster

Life, Find, America

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant

Needs, Thinks, Neighbor

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
Steve McQueen

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen

Nature, Human, Person

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Mason Cooley

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
Thomas Huxley

Truth, Mankind, Among

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