Certain Quotes

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

You do not become a real pro in your field by doing certain things - you become a pro in your field by doing things in a certain way.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy.

I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

There is a certain swagger with vampires.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way.

It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.