Certain Quotes - Page 10

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.

I don't know all the certain words to word it.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.