Certain Quotes

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

It is certain because it is impossible.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

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

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.