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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die

Author: Thomas Hardy
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life

Begin all over again? It would be no good. It would all turn out the same – all happen again just as it has happened. For certain people are For certain people are bound to go astray because for them no such thing as a right way exists

Author: Thomas E. Mann
Topics: Certain, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful

It’s not even race; it’s a certain type of person that gets ‘Pootie Tang.

Author: J. B. Smoove
Topics: Certain, Famous, Race

Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

Author: Iain Sinclair
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Slapped

“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place just theories, messages and formal tropes; stop hearing the music and hear only tonalities and harmonic shifts; stop seeing the person and see only mechanisms – all because of the plane of attention. More than that, when such a state of affairs comes about, you are no longer aware that there is a problem at all. For you do not see what it is you cannot see.”

Author: Iain McGilchrist
Topics: Certain, Cherish, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Humanity, Inspirational, Instead, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Problem

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Author: I.F.Stone
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moral, Positive

I’m still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

Author: Thom Yorke
Topics: Certain, Famous, Feelings, Knife, Life, Meaningful, Mysteries, Nature

You don’t think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar’s daughter. You’re supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn’t say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoe

Author: Theresa May
Topics: Certain, Daughters, Famous, Life, Particular, Responsibilities

My Favorite Songs Are My Favorite Songs Because They Just Feel Like A Certain Moment, Or A Certain Photo, Just A Snapshot For Whatever Three Or Four Minutes The Song Is

Author: Tyler, The Creator
Topics: Certain, Famous, Favorite, Meaningful, minutes, Moment, Songs

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Certain, Circumstances, End, Famous, Increases, Involves, Life, Meaningful, Progress, Train, Unforeseen, War, Wisdom

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Certain, Death, Dying, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Time, Uncertain

AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Certain, Famous, Forgive, God, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Merciful, Self-image, Sinner, Soldier, Throw, Torn

It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply as “the people” or, like the San bushmen of the Kalahari, the first people. But this is a symptom of primitiveness; attempting to prove divine biology in the nineteenth century is the anthropological equivalent of a society regressing to sleeping with the lights on

Author: A. A. Gill
Topics: Century, Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Human Right, Human society, Human soul, Human System, Inspirational, Life, Light, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Simplicity, Simply, Things, Thinking, Thinking mind

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Certain, Determination, Effort, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Giving up, Greatest, Inspirational, Lies, Meaningful, More, Patience, Perseverance, Positive, Success, Time, Trying, Weakness

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

 

Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Always, Certain, Intention, Intentional role, Suffer, Suffering, Will, Will power

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

 

Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Certain, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Reach, Return, Revealed truth, Viewpoint, Views

I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.

 

Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Touch, Touch Screens

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not

Author: Frank Zappa
Topics: Certain, Certainly, Charm, Ignorance, Ignorant leaders, Stupid, Stupidest, Sudden, Suffer, Suffering

Sometimes you gotta accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.

Author: Rod Wave
Topics: Accept, Certain, Fact, Famous, Sometimes

I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn’t me.

Author: Iman
Topics: Certain, Famous, Meaningful, Tried

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we” with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke “others” and regard himself as their interpreter – for me to consider him my enemy.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Certain, Enemies, Enemy, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hear, Hearing, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Philosopher, Philosophers

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: Certain, Famous, Freedom’s

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Author: Epictetus
Topics: Certain, Excuses, Famous, Ignorant, ill, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mentioned, Person

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

Author: Robert E. Lee
Topics: Abroad, Certain, Famous, Overwhelmed, States

You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it’s going to a great cause. We’ll see how many masks I’ll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I’ll hold onto them.

Author: Henrik Lundqvist
Topics: Certain, Famous, Meaningful, Money, Spend

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Author: Richard P. Feynman
Topics: Certain, Honest, Usually

If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

Author: Richard P. Feynman
Topics: Certain, Errors, Famous, Science

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.

Author: Richard Bach
Topics: Certain, Famous, Learn, Possible

It was the Congress that imposed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

 

Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Certain, Position, Position Information, Recognize, Recommended

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

 

Author: Coco Chanel
Topics: Certain, Famous, Feelings, Giving, Involved, Life, Meaningful

Things change, although I believe that certain principles – of attacking, entertaining football – should always be protected.

Author: Paul Scholes
Topics: Certain, Change, Famous, Football, Principles, Protected

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

 

Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Something, Something for nothing, Think, Thinking mind

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Topics: Certain, Divine, Divine guidance, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Sense of belonging, Sense of comfort

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Certain, Course, Feelings, Happen, Life, Positive, Prevent

I started making music… I guess I was 12, and I started playing ‘Guitar Hero.’ And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, ‘Let’s play real guitar. Let’s not waste more time.’ So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

Author: Post Malone
Topics: Certain, Christmas, Famous, Guitar, Guitar Hero, Music, Playing, Time

I’m not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

Author: Post Malone
Topics: Certain, Music, sticking

Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age – we’re programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.”

Author: Prince
Topics: Certain, Create, Creating, Famous, Learning, Life, Overcome, Programmed, Programs, Spend

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, ‘Wait, I’m doing what I want to be doing. I’m not wanting to do it; I’m doing it.’ And that’s awesome.

Author: Pink
Topics: Certain, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Something, Want

I’m very much in the trenches, and I don’t live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there’s always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

Author: Pink
Topics: Certain, Family, Famous, Luxury, Military, Paper, Pocket, Something, Trenches, Vote

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Topics: Certain, Death, Famous, Fear

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: Certain, Famous, Inspirational, Nothing, Uncertain

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Certain, Control, Famous, Greatest, Happening

I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn’t happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.

Author: Paul Walker
Topics: Certain, Famous, Friends, Guilty, Happen, Meaningful, People, Sometimes, Success, Superior

I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It’s really, really hard for me.

Author: Paul Walker
Topics: Certain, Circumstances, Creating, Depending, Fall, Famous, Hard, Meaningful, People, Real, Shoulders

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Certain, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Simply

Gravity is merely a certain natural inclination with which parts are imbued by the architect of all things.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Gravity, Meaningful

We forget the chains we wear in life.

 

Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Certain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Forget, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Wear

Here we must ask, ‘Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Certain, Crowd, Individual achievements, Individual Choices, Relationship, Religion, Religious Differences

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

Author: Muhammad Iqbal
Topics: Certain, Greater, Nature, Practical, Reason, Scientific, Time

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Author: Montesquieu
Topics: Certain, Famous, Meaningful, Moral, Moral Truths

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Topics: Certain, Famous, Meaningful, Wisdom

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Author: Matthew McConaughey
Topics: Certain, Famous, Image, Meaningful

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God’s grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Certain, Confidence, Faith, Famous, Grace, Life, Meaningful

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

Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Certain, Famous, Meaningful, Outside, Reason

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

Author: Bruce Lee
Topics: Certain, Discovery, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Present

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Author: Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Certain, Famous, Inspirational, leader, Meaningful

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

Author: Audrey Hepburn
Topics: Certain, Famous, Feelings, Leadership, Leads, Life, Meaningful

Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don’t understand me. I am a stranger to them. I’m certain Rembrandt loves me.

Author: Marc Chagall
Topics: Certain, Famous, Imperialist, Inspirational, Love, Meaningful, Neither, Russia, Soviets, Stranger, Understand

I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

Author: Arthur Ashe
Topics: Care, Certain, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Move, Start

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Certain, Christian, Christianity, God

Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: Certain, Flowers, Lies, Life, Talk, Uncertain, Wise

Of threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain—This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: Certain, Life, Paradise, Threat, Threatened

Nor will I: ever write a word that fades in light, this I must be certain; else lay desolate at bight.

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: Certain

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain – This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies –
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Author: Omar Khayyam
Topics: Certain, Forever, Hell, Hopes, Paradise

I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it’s an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you’re going to run into the reality, which is that that isn’t true.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Topics: Certain, Infinite, Pretend, Pretending, Reality, Resources, World

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

Author: Aristotle
Topics: Certain, Child, Famous, Father, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Mother

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Topics: Certain, Famous, Ideas, Life, Meaningful, Profoundly

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