Certain Quotes - Page 36

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

Words alone are certain good.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.