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'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

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

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

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.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not entirely certain what yesterday brought?

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.