Certain Quotes

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

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.

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

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.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

A certain blue enters your soul

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

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

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

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

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.

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

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

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

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

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

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.

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

Change is certain. Progress is not.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?