Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4860 authors
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Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
— Shirley Knight
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It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
— John F. Kerry
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A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.
— Ehud Olmert
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We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow…
— Bill McKibben
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies…
— Albert Camus
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a…
— Richard Adams
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In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve…
— John Turner
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Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will…
— Grover Norquist
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I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to…
— Bruce Nauman
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If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and…
— Harry S. Truman
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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…
— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
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My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will…
— Rajneesh
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain…
— Audre Lorde
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
— Egon Friedell
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There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to profit from the…
— Cus D'Amato
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People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect…
— Rajneesh
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
— John Henry Newman
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