Certain Quotes

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's just [an] idea that because I'm black I just look a certain way.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.