Certain Quotes

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

Sometimes it seems to me that certain European leaders want to be more Muslim that the Prophet Mohammad.

For instance, if he gets arrested on another felony within a certain amount of time it can be used to enhance the sentence on that new felony. It's not totally gone. But for the concern that's surfaced here, the retaining of his employment I would view that as an acquittal for those purposes.

Burgoyne, he had style, a certain charisma, and charm and humor about him.

A car represents the spirit of a certain time and represents a certain group of people. A car is alive.

If we were keen to avoid certain topics, it was probably more because it embarrassed us.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

We don't feel safe. We have certain individuals ... who refuse to wear IDs, who won't sit down (in class) ... who stand in the hallway. They do not want to be in school. Kennedy is a social gathering for some students.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

an amount of (explosives) ... in a certain location, the current difficulties could be swiftly overcome.

There's a certain level of geekiness attached to this.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.