Certain Quotes

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

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.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.