Certain Quotes - page 3

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. View quote
Leon Trotsky
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. View quote
William Osler
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. (Michel de Montaigne)
Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. View quote
Maurice Denis
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. View quote
Stendhal
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. View quote
Barack Obama
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. View quote
Georg Cantor
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. View quote
Franz Boas
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. View quote
Aldous Huxley