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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

At a certain point in one's career, you want to win, not just have a great season. You want to win a championship.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

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

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given.

No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

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

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

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

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

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