Certain Quotes

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.

The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.