Certain Quotes

“There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.”

“We are not certain we are never certain.”

“Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.”

“You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you.”

“What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propogating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it - even if the person himself wants to stop it.”

“I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The  story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.”

“There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about”

“In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.'I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.”

“Certain signs precede certain events.”