Certain Quotes

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.

There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation.

Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.