Certain Things Quotes
494 quotes by 451 authors
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A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before…
— Joan Rivers
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Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
— William Hazlitt
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
— Bertrand Russell
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There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on…
— Kim Campbell
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Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears,…
— Rajneesh
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Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
— Mencius
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
— Edward Norton
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Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist,"…
— Dave Chappelle
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That's what's gonna make me come up with new stuff, if you get a good break or a good beat, you get a certain energy,…
— Roxrite
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain…
— Lorenzo Snow
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real…
— James A. Baldwin
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There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to…
— Laura Nyro
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But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not…
— Henryk Gorecki
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