Certain Quotes

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them.

I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

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.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.