Certain Quotes

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

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

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

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.

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

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

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

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

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

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.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.