Certain Quotes

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

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.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.