Quotes of: Certain Keyword

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

Alfred Molina

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

William Boyd

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

William Paley

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Wole Soyinka

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Adam Lambert

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

Jeff Bridges

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

Redd Foxx

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

Robin Tunney

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Shirley Knight

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Shirley Knight

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Kate Adie

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

Richard Engel

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming—all the effects a ...

The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

God has created each soul in God’s image, and every soul is inherently good. Just as certain conditions can cause mold to grow on food, so too do certain circumstances cause an un-spiritual mold to grow on a person’s soul. Before long, the mold h...

Heaven, Hell, and the Planet in Between: Book 1: The Uniter

You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you wil...

The Infinities

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Sexual distortions carry strong undertones of prejudice—sexism, racism and homophobia—that rob individuals of their individuality. Common stereotypes include “men are all dogs,” “women are less interested in sex,” “gays are promiscuous,...

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as...

Notes from Underground

Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close but, when he tried to reach it, a long way away. A...

Night Watch

But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she’s not beautiful. There’s a certain set to the jaw and arch to the nose that might, with a following wind and in the right light, be called handsome by a good-na...

Lords and Ladies

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble ...

Letter to a Christian Nation