Certain Quotes

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.