Certain Quotes

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.

Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

A lot has changed for Germany since 2010. Back then it was not certain that I would be the number one. Now I'm glad about the responsibility I take for the team.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.