Certain Quotes - page 2

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. (John Updike)
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. View quote
John Updike
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. View quote
James Madison
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. View quote
James Thurber
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. View quote
Joan Miró
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. View quote
Georges Rouault
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. View quote
Henry James
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
It is certain because it is possible. View quote
Tertullian
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. (Stephen Hawking)
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. View quote
Norman Mailer
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. View quote
Washington Irving
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. View quote
Emil Cioran
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. View quote
Livy
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. View quote
Omar Bradley
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. View quote
Colette
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. View quote
Poul Anderson
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. (Roberto Bolaño)
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. View quote
Hugh Downs
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. View quote
James Jeans
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. View quote
Neil Simon