Certain Quotes
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.
The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.
People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.
I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.
The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum.
