Best Certain Quotes

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I’m not even sure I have a signature style, other than certain descriptive tendencies, an interest in the sound of language. Maybe an immersion in place.

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it’s cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn’t like me. I guess I wasn’t a certain type.

I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it’s fitting a certain mold to play a certain type of character, or the idea that we might have insecurities based on the standards we see in the media.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I’m teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

I don’t think I’ve ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there’s a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists – there are these messages in society that if you aren’t hitting certain metrics, then you’re not successful and you’re not valid.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation’s whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

It’s a funny line when you’re walking – the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

I want to play roles that I’m proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another
negotiation .

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive… i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learnt from them.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point – some obscure and secret boundary – a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

That’s why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set – the set of people who don’t give up.

I think a woman’s body is so much more sensual than a man’s. I’m not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I’m comfortable. As long as it’s tasteful, why not?

Do I care? No, I don’t care. People need certain things

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Well, I’m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

There’s no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.