Certain Quotes
The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.
Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.
I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.
If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.
There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.
I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.
The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.
There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.
Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.
Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)
With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.
Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from "Hello" and other times it takes a few weeks to develop that.
I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.
Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It's peculiar.
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.
I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.