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

Aristotle

I'm certain of Saturn's rivers, and all else is fact.

Saul Williams

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Seneca

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G. K. Chesterton

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Bertrand Russell

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

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Bertrand Russell

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight.

Horatio Nelson

It wasn't all that fun, but there was a certain euphoria about it.

Troy Mcmahan

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Robert Soper

There's a certain amount of resonance about that idea.

Larry Newman

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Paul Valery

A certain street credibility.

Gerald Lefcourt

There is a certain sense out there that the city should no be involved in this.

Nick Licata

This causes a certain amount of difficulty for us.

Joe May

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Herman Melville

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Allen Ginsberg

We use a product called Packet Shaper which allows us to limit the bandwidth that certain applications have.

Barbara Jacobs

There are certain things that you have to do to play that position.

Gary Pinkel

There is just a certain amount you can deal with.

Daryl Miller

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

Richard Hell

This guy seems to think that unless you have a certain way of thinking, you don't belong here.

Daniel Hernandez

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Ambrose Bierce

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Giulio Andreotti

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Voltaire

I'm fairly certain that A is better than B and that B is better than C. I'm not sure if I can say A is 3.2 [times better than] B and that B is 6.9 [times better than] C.

Dan Geer

I am certain O'Neill never had it.

Ron Suskind

There's a certain spiritual quality being in a church.

Joe Hurwitz

We acknowledge that only she can defend herself against allegations that she misrepresented the teachings of certain religious beliefs.

Saor Siagiaan

There's a certain irony in the mayor's position.

Terry Christensen

What you see is what you get. I mean, we don't try to groom ourselves any certain way.

Howie Dorough

Is looking less certain every day.

Group Inc

If you get to a certain point, there's no pulling out of it.

Dot Matthews

There are certain places you just can't walk away from.

Paul Kovensky

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Robert De Niro

You want to make certain that you don't do other things to make things worse.

Thomas Insel

There is a certain element of risk for a step like this.

C. Uday Bhaskar

A customer has to have the access to a certain baseline of service.

Jeffrey Citron

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Howard Zinn

At a certain point, the ones that are left are going to stay.

Jonathan Gaw

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

That is what is suspected, but we don't have enough evidence to say for certain. The damage is so bad up there.

Joel Gray

We don't set out to have a particular theme, but sometimes certain themes emerge.

Rick Winston

We're going into it cautiously. We all believe there is still a certain sanctity to a school bus.

Bill Ball

Certain gloves can improve your grip.

Sandra Mason

Certain areas are growing so rapidly right now.

Linda Holmes

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

Alfred Molina

There is a certain capacity where we can borrow without affecting our credit rating - probably in the ballpark of about $2 billion.

Alexander Izosimov

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Thales

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.

Pliny the Elder

There is a certain modality being considered.

Marty Natalegawa

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

There has to be a certain enigma in it, which does not immediately catch the eye.

M.c. Escher

In certain cases dam removal is the best alternative from an economic standpoint as well.

Sarah Johnson

These are the students who ask why something is a certain way and then they do the research to find out.

Mary Burke

It's a huge company. It can only grow at a certain rate.

Robert Friedman

There's a certain amount of money set aside. Now the company's telling us it's not there.

Mimi Rodriguez

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Piper Laurie

Although we have had indications from certain Skandia shareholders that they do not accept, this has got a long way to go.

Julian Roberts

We appreciate being eligible to cover certain costs.

Sarah Elliott

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

Bobby Sherman

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

There are certain boundaries you do not cross, and I saw her crossing those boundaries.

Lee Brand

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

David Allan Coe

Over the long haul, it's almost certain that these will be a losing bet.

Russ Kinnel

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Alexander Pope

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie

It looks as if it wasn't the parrot. But we will never know for certain.

Ben Bradshaw

Believed that his uncle ran the (training) camp that he attended and was 75 to 80 percent certain that his grandfather ran the camp.

Hamid Hayat

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

William Shenstone

There's a certain poetic license to $76, given that was the original J&J bid.

Nancy Havens

If we were keen to avoid certain topics, it was probably more because it embarrassed us.

Sherlock Holmes

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Owen Meredith

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Otway

(Police) told me they were certain it was him, and that's why I testified. That was bad to blame someone that was not there.

Juan Moreno

It's hard for me to sit in front of my team and say a certain game is a 'must-win' game.

Mark Mangino

They have certain rights in the process. None of that has been followed in this case.

Steve Johnson

When you're on television every single day, it seems to attract a certain type of stalker.

Lisa Rinna

It's certain that the virus has reached Italy.

Francesco Storace

We will need to get a certain minimum actors to proceed.

Cathy Mirelez

I feel like our community has a lot of attractiveness. There's a certain allure to Canyon, partly because it's dry, I feel like.

Gary Peterson

We have seen there has been a certain radicalization of the movement.

Alexei Malashenko

You get to a certain age and you start to rethink your life and rethink your priorities.

Jennifer Tilly

You get a certain amount of respect when you start accounting for 1,000 transactions a month.

Scott Painter

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

When you're a celebrity on your own there's a certain amount of acknowledgment. When two people who are both famous get together it becomes a bigger thing. It almost becomes bigger than the couple.

Trisha Yearwood

There were certain things they had to do in the design. And there were some things they couldn't do.

Scott Faieta

Certain things worked. We didn't get around to doing the things that worked.

Jimmie Russell

In September, I'm certain they will be down.

Larry White

There's always going to be a certain amount of congestion to deal with.

David Vaughn

There's rumors flying, but nobody knows anything for certain.

John Dubrucq

Certain ambiguities in presidential succession.

Brian Baird

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson

From the very beginning, she was under the impression that if she did certain things, the charges would go away.

Tony Castro

They will be dispersed to certain parishes.

Joe Peel

The market gets used to certain prices. But if we get to $80 oil, that is new to the market and something that attracts attention.

Quincy Krosby

The kind of activity we've seen so far in certain respects is encouraging.

Donald Fehr

I certainly think it could be a stand-alone company. I'm not certain it should be.

Jan Wald

I'm very happy. But when this sort of thing happens, it's best to have a certain detachment.

Isabelle Huppert

The band is something I'm very proud of, and obviously I'm very attached to it. There's a certain uniqueness to Foreigner.

Mick Jones

We can see only certain things, not all the devastation.

Jill Takayama

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

Thayer David

To go by a nickname is to almost proclaim yourself in certain male areas.

Cleveland Kent Evans

There's a certain amount of peer pressure, so your environment can dictate it, too.

Sean Cunningham

They told me they were certain it was him.

Juan Moreno

When Roman came here he wanted to quickly get the club up to a certain level.

Frank Arnesen

It was the H5N1-type - this is certain.

Jan Zmudzinski

I've been going out on auditions, but it's hard if you don't have a certain image.

Ahmed Best

It's important to be able to make contributions that allow local groups to do certain things.

John Hutchinson

All of them told me they were asked to destroy certain records. And they did.

Richard Reeves

We need a certain amount of documented history before we can make a prediction.

Craig Watts

There's a certain ferocity in motherhood.

Celeste Zappala

Ambassador Mulford has no business to behave not like an Ambassador. An Ambassador has to behave under certain norms.

Prakash Karat

The one thing that we're certain of is that the remains in the two graves are not family-related.

Nick Clarke

Trees only absorb carbon to a certain point in their lifetime.

Jennifer Morgan

Downtown businesses attract a certain kind of business professional.

Linda Mccarthy

We always depended on her for information about people, certain organizations and their achievements.

Ron Agor

It is certain because it is impossible.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

I'm pretty comfortable directing someone away from certain fish.

Justin Cross

I didn't so much become an advocate for public access until I was denied. There was a certain amount of indignation there.

Ryan Nees

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward

Every host was writing across both [old and new] fabrics until we were certain everything was OK.

Tim Hesson

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

There are a lot of creeps on the Internet. There's just a certain amount of risk.

Peter Weddle

You get rid of a certain anxiety by realizing you're not alone.

Olivia Mellan

There was a pall, a certain sadness, because you knew an era was coming to an end.

Randy Moore

100 percent certain that they're watching the situation all the time.

Ramon Magsaysay

There were a few players in the team with a certain reputation and we don't have that anymore.

Dennis Wise

She had a certain peace.

Jack Templeton

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

Chris Bailey

Certain areas of the government appeared to be rewarded with jobs.

Robert Grant

There are certain parts of his argument you could probably agree with.

Brian O'driscoll

Burgoyne, he had style, a certain charisma, and charm and humor about him.

John Burnham

But God is there and He's good ? I'm certain of that.

Michael Clark

The US Ambassador does not seem to understand how to behave as an ambassador in this country. An ambassador has to behave according to certain norms.

Prakash Karat

A 'no change' outcome looks virtually certain.

James Knightley

It's real dim and dark in certain areas. We'll make it more pleasing.

David Ricks

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Michael Crichton

You are as certain as you can be that the deaths of these two did not take place at the place where they were found?

David Morris

I'm certain this negotiation is going to have a lot of high and low moments.

Wendy Cutler

We're not disappointed with our race. We set out to run certain times, and we met our goals.

Steve Rothwell

He was certain he had green signals.

Rick Radek

Now we can measure it very specifically with certain MRI techniques.

Dr. George Bartzokis

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

George Melton

(Dealing with censorship) has become our art how to say something with certain rules.

Rafi Pitts

In fact, I'm certain that, had it not been for marijuana, I would have died.

Greg Scott

As we are getting close, I think there is a certain amount of fatigue.

Martha Cotter

When these people came to town, they brought a business to town. There are certain things we have to have in place when the movie people come here.

Larry Powell

I would always try to cheer them on at practice. I'll try to get them to do certain things in practice that I know that they can do so that they could see that they could do them.

Amy Siedlecki

In the same way that music inspires us to certain feelings, space can do the same thing.

Sarah Susanka

To me, the rate of growth was anticipated to a certain degree, but not to this degree.

Dan Wood

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Shawn Ryan

They have made generators available to us in certain areas.

Pansy Tlakula

With the certain rivalries we've got, I'm going to miss it. I'm really going to miss it.

Roy Peake

They've all been validated, so that a certain score is indicative of Alzheimer's disease.

Bill Thies

I feel fairly certain something will pass.

Sen. Ulysses Currie

In certain states, it's not even (thought of as) a holiday.

Kevin Flynn

For us, certain defenders may just have the assets to match up with a certain opponent.

Bob Slowik

But, ... we can now do so effectively and when necessary so as to make certain that we get these vessels to stop.

James Loy

I felt that if I would chew a certain way and the director would let me do whatever.

Sofia Vergara

If my boss offered up additional forces I would use them in certain places, but they are not 100% required.

Joseph Taluto

Certain people I knew from other places.

Joe Merwin

I have had certain advantages because of who my dad is.

Rory Reid

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

Matthew Mcconaughey

Yes I'm certain someone didn't press the wrong button. It doesn't operate like that.

Jeff Mccracken

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Hospitals are in the business of providing a certain level of acute care.

Lyle Churchill

It's not every day that you see certain guys just come into this league and play well.

Ike Hilliard

There is a certain amount of disconnect here.

Cody Acree

We always want our artists to act a certain way, and we're always disappointed.

Richard Pierce

It takes time to get certain things in place, especially when you're in transition from one era to another era.

Joel Glazer

We've been doing acquisitions all along. Now we can do bigger deals in excess of certain dollar amount.

Gary Sheffer

This is, of course, speculative because there are certain regulatory elements as well.

Anssi Vanjoki

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Anthony Burgess

Either way we have a certain amount of energy that we can use for drilling.

Suparna Mukherjee

I wish our competitors well, to a certain degree, on those shows.

Peter Liguori

We were never certain the man was in the home alone.

Jacki Kelley

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

Barry Levinson

One thing is fairly certain -- it's going to be a major hurricane.

Chris Landsea

Nevada made adjustments against our zone. You give certain things up to get certain things.

Mike Divilbiss

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Robert Motherwell

Certain acts but didn't commit any criminal acts.

Paul Bergrin

There is a certain way to talk to a referee, and he knows how to do it.

Marco Armijo

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

Francoise Sagan

It is absolutely certain that I will very shortly make an announcement.

Robert Nichols

I think it's been a scandal to a certain degree so far, but whether it will end up being a full-blown one, I don't think so. And I don't think it should be.

Dick Button

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

Sarah Caldwell

There's a certain rubbed-off portion.

Vladimir Ustinov

We have a network of tippers. We got a tip that Jolie was going to a certain place (Alfajiri).

Alan Williams

We are certain that your experiment results will be another reason for all of us to be proud of you.

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