Certain Quotes

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

Words alone are certain good.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.