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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. -- Andre Maurois
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels. -- Clare Balding
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you. -- Shakira
You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana. -- Harvey Korman
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. -- Jodi Picoult
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom, -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. -- Ambrose Bierce
If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people. -- Keke Palmer
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. -- Will Cuppy
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. -- Idries Shah
About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing. -- Dogen
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. -- Will Cuppy
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week. -- Rachel Zoe
Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting. -- Paul J. Meyer
I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off, it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out. -- Heather Mills
There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that. -- Jennifer Lawrence
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. -- Epictetus
If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc. -- Lynsey Addario
I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model. -- Kate Upton
I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer. -- Julian Casablancas
Some people have like a certain person, when they're around they get like a gnarly energy. I see it in other people, if a certain person's around they compete really well or something like that. I think it's sort of like that. -- Mick Fanning
Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct. -- Frederick Lenz
If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time. -- Pema Chodron
Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down. -- Viggo Mortensen
If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options. -- Robert Greene
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote. -- E. B. White
Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person. -- Jami Attenberg
To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person. -- Jason James Richter
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. -- Charles Kettering
It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.' -- J. B. Smoove
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. -- Ertharin Cousin
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. -- Patrick Marber
I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. -- David Byrne
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. -- Jerzy Kosinski
I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way. -- Lykke Li
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
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. -- James Baldwin
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. -- Daryl Gates
Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person. -- Danny Brown
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you. -- Zadie Smith
If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable. -- Errol Morris
It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang. -- J. B. Smoove
A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody. -- Pope Francis
It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal. -- Initially NO
It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger. -- Sara Sheridan
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. -- Nora Ephron
How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I'm certain I love? -- Suzanne Collins
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person. -- Michael Lewis
Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person. -- Michael Angarano
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. -- Christopher Hitchens
I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings. -- Katrina Kaif
If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not. -- Taylor Swift
Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he apears. -- Ilona Andrews
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. -- Alexander Theroux
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. -- Thomas Carlyle
Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker. -- Britta Phillips
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not. -- Anthony Kiedis
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. -- William Blake
I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job. -- Alexis Bledel
It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores. -- Will Forte
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. -- Errol Morris
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all. -- Haruki Murakami
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. -- Ambrose Bierce
Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized. -- George Gershwin
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far. -- Wendy Kopp
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me. -- Joe Mansueto
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off. -- John Lydon
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service. -- Napoleon Hill
Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type. -- Walter Schellenberg
If you want to earn a certain amount of money, develop yourself into the person who is worth being paid that amount of money. -- Idowu Koyenikan
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. -- Frank Auerbach
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. -- Gary Saul Morson
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. -- Thomas Aquinas
The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour. -- David Malet Armstrong
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die. -- Chuck Klosterman
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. -- E. Stanley Jones
My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!" -- Sarah Silverman
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. -- Margaret Drabble
I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity. -- Glenn Beck
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important. -- David Brooks
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. -- Bob Dylan
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. -- Jason Marsden
You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide. -- Dan Stevens
Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it. -- Nick Kroll
I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.' -- Julianne Hough
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed. -- Howard Zinn
People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. -- Dan Stevens
I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. -- Carla Gugino
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ. -- J. C. Ryle
When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's just [an] idea that because I'm black I just look a certain way. ... -- Misty Copeland
We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it. -- Barack Obama
Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are. -- Omar Suleiman
Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone. -- Art Buchwald
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love -- Andy Warhol
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points. -- Rich Lowry
A company has to be like that person who turns his cuffs up a different way, who smokes a certain brand of cigarette, who wears an obscure vintage watch. -- Andy Spade
I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan. -- Donald Trump

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