Certain Quotes

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

I think no matter what you do, a certain amount of people are going to call you a sellout, somehow, you know. If I ever start trying to make a living on it.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.

You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative.

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.

Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

I've learned... that sometimes coming public with certain things, it inspires other people. And sometimes I want to keep things private... but then I found out that it helps other families.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.