That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on. Some of the promises,it's true,you make to young,before you really have an understanding of what they mean. But once you've made those first promises,other promises are called for. And the thing is you can't deny the new ones without betraying the old ones. The promises get bigger,there are more people to be hurt and disappointed if you don't live up to them. Then, at some point, your called upon to make a promise to a dying man.
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
Socialism works. . . [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.
I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.
When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
Certain people always say we should go back to nature. I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness. . . their 'disability. ' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.