Certain Quotes

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.