Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Lucas Till

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

John Bolton

We are preparing a resolution for the full council to adopt. It would impose the sanctions. It's a down payment, and certainly not the end of the sanctions process.

There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a mutual plan in how to respond or how to prevent certain attacks.

Richard Hell

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

Mike Johnson

There are certain types of situations when it is more likely.

There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you have to look at the overall safety record.

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'

There are certain times and circumstances in which you can get this aircraft, where it's like trying to fly a brick. It will crash.

Keith Urban

There are certain things you want to go do together, and you want your mate to be there. But mostly you just try and, you know, pick places where you shouldn't be going because it's going to be too crazy.

Mo Johnston

There are certain things you need to do and winning derby games is one of them. We have a new owner and we'll have a traveling contingent so we need to perform and I'm confident that we will.

Clint Walker

There are certain things you have to know about acting.

There are certain things you can only see at night. It's really quite something to see.

There are certain things we have to do, so we have to be ready to pay for it. We can't send a whole shift of police officers home in an effort to cut back on fuel costs.

Gary Pinkel

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

Beyonce Knowles

There are certain things in there that are unrealistic. But it has worked for me.

Jeff Lemire

There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.

There are certain things about her I'd like to change over the next month or two. She's not good enough to win state right now. But could she win state by April? Yea.

There are certain television theme songs that are nearly as memorable as the shows connected to them. By jogging memories as well as creating wonderful moments by having them performed on this year's Emmy show, we think we're giving viewers one more reason to tune in and be entertainment.

David Schwimmer

There are certain sacrifices that you make, and you feel like the only compensation you have as an actor is financial.

Harri Holkeri

There are certain rules that are very important in political negotiations. The first rule is to create more trust and confidence between the parties.

Wayne Hale

There are certain risks involved. You could damage the tank.

There are certain programs that impose their own set of requirements as well. A lot of internship programs require a 3.0 GPA and there are certain programs that are specifically for one major.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Cate Blanchett

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

There are certain national-type programs that are measuring-stick games,