Certain Quotes - page 5

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. View quote
Tennessee Williams
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. View quote
Freda Adler
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. View quote
Colin Powell
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom. View quote
Hugo Grotius
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. View quote
Jack Kerouac
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. (Françoise Sagan)
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. View quote
Henry James
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn`t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don`t regret it. View quote
Kim Wilde
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers--in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. View quote
Arvo Pärt
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. View quote
Quintilian
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. View quote
Richard Branson
All my life I have had a certain idea of France. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. (Joseph Addison)
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' View quote
George W. Bush
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments. View quote
Anaïs Nin