Certain Quotes
7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors
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Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
— Stephen Covey
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in…
— George Orwell
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved…
— Mario Puzo
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The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was…
— Fernand Braudel
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This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be…
— Rick Santorum
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The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
— Earl Nightingale
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There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
— Henry Hazlitt
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I've never believed protectionism of that kind will lead us anywhere. I think you can have certain specific rules for engaging with India.. for example,…
— Ratan Tata
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We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is…
— John F. Kerry
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You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to…
— Jamie Foxx
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To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more…
— Karl Popper
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... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
— Henrik Svensmark
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the…
— Richard Owen
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What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
— Barack Obama
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Grace is a certain beginning of glory in us.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he…
— Watchman Nee
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It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and…
— Neil Postman
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Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have…
— Milton Friedman
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