Certain Quotes - Page 9

• I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Hands, Safety, Calm

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, December 29, 1881.

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• Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Change, Hell, Landmarks

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• Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Eye, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

  William Butler Yeats

  Crazy, Women, Meat

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 30 (1919)

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• You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

  John Powell

  Lying, Men, Yesterday

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• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  Livy

  Ties, Toil, Pleasure

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 4,

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• There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.

  Roger Penrose

  Running, Thinking, Views

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• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Artist, Funny Things

  "Melissa Etheridge: Ramping back up with 'Breakdown'". Interview with Brooke Alexander, www.cnn.com.

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• I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Texas, East

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• I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Stupid, Immature

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• It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

  J Mascis

  Fun, Play, Sometimes

  "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

  Monte Irvin

  Heart, Winning, Overcoming

  "Monte Irvin: Nice Guys Finish First". Book by Monte Irvin, www.washingtonpost.com. 1996.

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• Some people are just born wack, you can't teach certain wackness.

  The Weeknd

  People, Born, Teach

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012

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• For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay more attention to when and where I do that thinking, to be attentive to the settings in which meditation takes place. Sometimes the disconnect between the mind and the world is itself revealing, but in 'The Whole World Is Gone,' I think the setting deeply complements, indeed elicits and allows, a certain set of realizations to occur.

  Jennifer Grotz

  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

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• When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Giving, Important

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• I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.

  Mark Edward

  Real, Arrows, Goal

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• The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers and may just prance around with a big laugh and smile on my face. Politicians have an arrogance. I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debate since high school.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Laughing, Arrogance

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• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  Fiona Shaw

  Running, Want, Exhausted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

  Matisyahu

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Past

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• Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Country, Queens

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

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• Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Talent, Shameless, Form

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• To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Fall, Writing

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