Certain Quotes

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.

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

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

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God

Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

What is known for certain is dull.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

There's something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can't see everything.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.