Certain Quotes - page 7

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society. (Mila Kunis)
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Words alone are certain good. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. View quote
Anatole France
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to slaughter. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given. View quote
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of Cathedral tunes. View quote
Emily Dickinson
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. (Harvey Fierstein)
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. View quote
Luis Buñuel
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. View quote
George Mason
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation. View quote
Ernst Mayr
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. View quote
Wim Wenders
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.... View quote
Joe Biden
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! (Dave Barry)
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. View quote
Mark Kingwell
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: You cannot have either until you have both. View quote
Ramsey Clark
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. View quote
Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. View quote
Mark Twain