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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -- Thomas A. Edison
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -- John F. Kennedy
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -- Charles R. Swindoll
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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. -- Ambrose Bierce
Certain signs precede certain events. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Certain rhythms just have certain moods. -- Dennis Brown
Certain names always awake certain prejudices. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion. -- Holly Golightly
Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket. -- Kapil Dev
Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Certain things give you another perspective in life. -- Jose Carreras
Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working. -- David Batchelor
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. -- Noel Coward
Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop. -- Ellen Hopkins
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory. -- Livy
Certain books come to meet me, as do people. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep. -- Haruki Murakami
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled. -- Richard Wagner
Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me. -- Terry Venables
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. -- Mary Astell
Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know. -- Andy Serkis
Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become. -- John Burnham Schwartz
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. -- Henry Adams
Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap. -- Thomas Jefferson
Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is. -- Ron Ziegler
I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I -- Ian Curtis
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. -- Timothy West
Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone. -- Paulo Coelho
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed. -- M. Ward
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. -- Daniel Defoe
At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family. -- Gwen Stefani
Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars. -- Saul Bellow
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. -- Voltaire
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. -- John Steinbeck
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. -- Wim Wenders
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. -- William Butler Yeats
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. -- Peter Ueberroth
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." -- Werner Heisenberg
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. -- Hugh Downs
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. -- Wayne Dyer
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. -- Martin Puryear
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes. -- Malin Akerman
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible. -- Wayne Dyer
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. -- Sun Tzu
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. -- Antoni Gaudi
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. -- Aldous Huxley
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. -- Dave Attell
I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets. -- Nathan Fillion
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep. -- Taraji P. Henson
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. -- Johnny Depp
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -- Richard Bach
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. -- Stephen Covey
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people. -- Bryan Clay
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. -- Les Brown
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money. -- Donald Trump
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. -- Ruth Ann Minner
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things. -- Tom Wlaschiha
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. -- Aristotle
It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?' -- David Sedaris
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. -- Sam Harris
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. -- Brene Brown
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! -- Jules Verne
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. -- Summer Sanders
Nothing is ever certain. -- Alice Sebold
Be confident, not certain -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Accept certain inalienable truths. -- Baz Luhrmann
Make certain decisions only once. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Words alone are certain good. -- William Butler Yeats
Nothing is certain by uncertainty. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Keep trying, your success is certain. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. -- Niklaus Wirth
Pain is certain, suffering is optional. -- Gautama Buddha
The only certain freedom's in departure. -- Robert Frost
Life is uncertain; death is certain. -- Gautama Buddha
In counterfactual history, nothing is certain. -- Robert Dallek
Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. -- Thomas Southerne
Change is certain. Progress is not. -- Edward Hallett Carr
Act as if success is certain. -- Price Pritchett
A certain blue enters your soul -- Henri Matisse
I know certain truths about life. -- Dana Reinhardt
I'm less certain now but kinder. -- Frank Schaeffer
Do not feel certain of anything. -- Bertrand Russell
Money has a certain kind of amnesty. -- Andy Warhol
Everyone expects me to do certain things, -- Rodney Mullen
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm -- Michael Cunningham
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. -- Ella Maillart
There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes. -- William Devane
Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion -- Molly Ivins
There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles. -- Inara George
There is a certain physiognomy in manners. -- Joseph Cook
Society is better off without certain people. -- Bernhard Goetz
Nothing is certain in London but expense. -- William Shenstone
There is a certain swagger with vampires. -- Charles Michael Davis
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. -- Isobelle Carmody
There is a certain pleasure in weeping. -- Ovid
What is known for certain is dull. -- Max Perutz
It is certain because it is possible. -- Tertullian
In this world, only winter is certain -- George R. R. Martin
It is certain because it is impossible. -- Tertullian
Funny how certain things stay with you. -- Lauren Oliver
Only the fools are certain and assured. -- Michel de Montaigne
There is a certain justice in criticism. -- Stephen Spender
The past is certain, the future obscure. -- Thales
Death was far more certain than God. -- Graham Greene

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