Certain Quotes

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.