Certain Quotes - page 9

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest. (Augusten Burroughs)
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. View quote
Penelope Lively
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple. View quote
Richard Adams
I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes. View quote
Ruud Gullit
You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way. View quote
Tim Burton
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. View quote
Thom Mayne
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others. View quote
Steffi Graf
Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain. View quote
Aron Ralston
Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . View quote
Eileen Caddy
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name. (Debby Ryan)
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability. View quote
Eisaku Sato
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. View quote
Eugenio Montale
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain. View quote
Georges Pompidou
Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other! View quote
Cornelia Funke
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. View quote
Christian Bale
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred. View quote
Langston Hughes
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. (Ludwig Quidde)
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. View quote
Atom Egoyan
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. View quote
David Dinkins
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. View quote
Imogen Cunningham
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. View quote
Terry Southern