Certain Quotes

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

People want me to do things, be a certain way and that's not going to happen. I'm going to be Albert Belle.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

We are not certain, we are never certain.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

I know! It means when two boys are really happy ‘cause they love each other.” She laughed. He wasn’t certain whether to laugh along with her—or cry.

I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.

We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.