Certain Quotes

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and should only express those views you honestly hold.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.