Certain Quotes

7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he… — Manuel Puig
To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with… — James Turrell
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. — Don DeLillo
One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of… — Daisaku Ikeda
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. — Sylvia Plath
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to… — Aretha Franklin
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise… — Alan Watts
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits. — Charles Darwin
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is… — Ralph Ellison
Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears. — Pope Francis
Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. — Jack Nicholson
All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;… — George Mason
So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure… — Daisaku Ikeda
A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family. — Benjamin Franklin
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me… — Vincent Van Gogh
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself… — Hunter S. Thompson
If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure. — Napoleon Hill
Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad… — Dallas Willard
There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't… — Michael J. Fox
No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place… — Grover Cleveland
What if opportunity comes and you aren't prepared? If you don't prepare yourself for opportunity, one thing is certain, you won't win even when you… — Marshall Sylver
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince… — Oswald Chambers
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find… — Michael Stuhlbarg
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my… — Gary Lucas

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