Certain Quotes

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.

I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.

You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.