Certain famous quotes
03-24-2025
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
-- A. R. Ammons -
There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
-- Aaliyah -
Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
-- Abraham Maslow -
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
-- Abu Bakr -
There are certain things women are better at than men.
-- Adam Carolla -
I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.
-- Adam Lambert -
At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
-- Adam Leipzig -
Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
-- Adolph Gottlieb -
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
-- Alan Watts -
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
-- Albert Camus -
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
-- Albert Camus -
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
-- Albert Ellis -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
-- Aldous Huxley -
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
-- Alex Webb -
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
-- Alex Winter -
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
-- Alex Winter -
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
-- Alex Winter -
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
-- Alexander Wang -
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
-- Alfred Molina -
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
-- Alice James -
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
-- Alice Walker -
There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
-- Allan Dwan -
I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.
-- Alyssa Milano -
are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?
-- Amin Maalouf -
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
-- Anatol Rapoport -
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
-- Andre Maurois -
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
-- Andy Garcia -
I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.
-- Andy Van Slyke -
You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.
-- Anita Hill -
All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
-- Ann Brashares -
I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.
-- Ann Romney -
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
-- Anne McCaffrey -
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.
-- Arielle Ford -
I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.
-- Arthur Symons -
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.
-- Augustus William Hare -
As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims.
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri -
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
-- Babette Deutsch -
Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.
-- Barbara Cartland -
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
-- Barnett Newman -
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
-- Barry Levinson -
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
-- Barry Lyga -
I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
-- Bela Kun -
It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.
-- Bernard Arnault -
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Society is better off without certain people.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell -
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
-- Bertrand Russell -
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
-- Biz Stone -
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Blaise Pascal -
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
-- Bo Burnham -
We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
-- Bob Goff -
The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
-- Bob Kerrey -
The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
-- Bob McDonnell -
I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.
-- Bobby Sherman -
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
-- Brett Favre -
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.
-- Brian Froud -
And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
-- Brian Lumley -
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
-- C. S. Lewis -
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
-- C.J. Sansom -
to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...
-- C.P. Cavafy -
The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
-- Cam Newton -
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
-- Carl Icahn -
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
-- Carl Jung -
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
-- Carl Sagan -
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.
-- Carl Sagan -
A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
-- Cate Blanchett -
I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
-- Channing Tatum -
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
-- Charles Babbage -
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
-- Charles Dance -
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
There is a certain swagger with vampires.
-- Charles Michael Davis -
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
-- Charles Osgood -
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
-- Charles Stross -
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
-- Charles Wagner -
If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.
-- Cheri Huber -
I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
-- Christian Slater -
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth,
-- Christophe Agou -
I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
-- Cinda Williams Chima
