Certain Quotes

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you can see in big hotels.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

And I'm certain one day, you'll make it back home. With love, Your friend and Cêpan, -H

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot. But they’re both great.

The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

You may think you are going against a certain style and then guys don't fight like they always fight. People change in the ring.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.