Top 25 Certain Quotes of 1084 - Page 11

There is a certain justice in criticism.

There is a certain justice in criticism.

Stephen Spender

Justice, Criticism, Certain

Stephen Spencer's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Pema Chodron

What If, Accepted, Uncertainty Of Life

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

Noam Chomsky

Men, Want, Certain

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Keith Devlin

Ontology, Logic, Certainty

Keith Devlin (2003). “Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition”, p.7, CRC Press

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

James Frey

Outlaw, Certain, Wanted

"James Frey: 'I always wanted to be the outlaw'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

Fernando Pessoa

Peace, Uncertain, Quietness

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

Christiane Amanpour

Stories, Driven, Certain

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Chip Kidd

Anticipation, Certainty, Doom

Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

Charlotte Selver

Answers, Moments, Certain

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Carl Sagan

Mathematics, Certain, Pure

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.51, Ballantine Books

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

Bette Davis

Certain, Ecstasy

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

Barnett Newman

World, Process, Certain

Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.241, Univ of California Press

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Class, Progression, Certain

Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Bad Times and On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

William Faulkner

Certain, Amount

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

Swami Paramananda

Attributes, Certain, Magnitude