Certain Quotes - page 6

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. View quote
Richard Bach
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. View quote
Indra Nooyi
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. View quote
Ben Hecht
It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go. View quote
Jack White
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. View quote
James Baldwin
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. View quote
James Baldwin
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. View quote
Edith Wharton
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. View quote
Jean Rostand
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. View quote
Noël Coward
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. (Oscar Wilde)
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. View quote
Mortimer Adler
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. View quote
Douglas Coupland
We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place. View quote
Alice Cooper
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. View quote
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. View quote
Bertrand Russell
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless. (Bertrand Russell)
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. View quote
Bill Watterson
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. View quote
Agatha Christie
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having. View quote
Gene Wolfe
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. View quote
Francis Bacon