Certain Quotes
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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.
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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.
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 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.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
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.
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.
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
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.
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.
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
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.
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.
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.
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.
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
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.
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
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.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.