Certain Quotes - Page 3

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.