Certain Quotes

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.