Certain Quotes

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

There's no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.