Certain Quotes

Act as if success is certain.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.