top of page

"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Politician

Certainty, Nations, United, Will

50

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

Exlpore more Certainty quotes

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

Certainty, Light, Man, May

"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

Certainty, Earth

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Certainty, Man, Woman

"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

Michael Crichton, American Author

Certainty, World

"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

Certainty, Judgment, Order, Scripture

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Certainty, Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

Certainty, Law, Principles, Questions

"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."

William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

Certainty, Christ, Conviction, Man

"Perseverance guarantees success."

Rajen Jani, Indian Author

Certainty, Perseverance, Success, Effort

Explore more quotes by Conor Cruise O'Brien

"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity."

"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."

"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."

"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."

"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

bottom of page