Certain Quotes

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

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

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.