Certain Quotes

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.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

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.

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

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

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.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

I'm human, so of course certain things sometimes hurt. I just laugh at it.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

I don't know all the certain words to word it.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.