Certain Quotes - Page 12

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

Certainty becomes you.

I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.