Certain Quotes
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
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.
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.
People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.
Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.
I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.
To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.