Top 455 Certainly Quotes

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It’s why the Greeks invented the Olympics.
Mike Leach
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
Peter Ackroyd
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter
There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military sites can be found online, in open chat rooms and commercial satellite photos.
David E. Sanger
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
Mary Wesley
And certainly don't get caught by the press having too

And certainly don’t get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.
Denis Thatcher
‘Wild at Heart’ created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher’s part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.
John Eldredge
It is aspiring tyrants who say that ‘civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.’ Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.
Timothy D. Snyder
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
George Takei
I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
Amity Gaige
I’ve been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
David Cassidy
As long as we’re dependent on those fossil fuels, we’re dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we’re certainly captives.
John M. McHugh
I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.
Chester Brown
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
Robert Fortune
Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin – his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It’s all about choices and how we make them.
Matthew James Thomas
Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin’ was good.
Bill Gross
The script of ‘Shogun’ was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn’t take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.
John Rhys-Davies
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
Milos Forman
Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.
Frances Arnold
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton’s leadership.
Alexis Herman
I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that’s something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.
Christina Romer
It’s one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That’s something I haven’t talked about much in my comic strips, and it’s certainly something I’m interested in.
Lynda Barry
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Jeffery Deaver
I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that’s up to the WWE Universe. That’s up to the fans. But there is a guy on ‘SmackDown’ that I have yet to wrestle yet that’s certainly gonna happen at some point, and that’s Randy Orton.
A.J. Styles
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Francis Spufford
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they’re too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
John Saxon
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic.
Susan Blackmore
Certainly, different people show their emotions in different ways. Unfortunately for me, mine has never been very gracious and I don’t know that it ever will be.
Kyle Busch
Football helped me tremendously, and that’s why I want the sport to stay because it’s so valuable. It’s helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I’ve learned discipline. I’ve learned focus, teamwork, communication.
Myron Rolle
I’ve certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. I’ve been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I’ve accepted a part since then, because I’ve been given much better parts in films.
Hugh Grant
One of my priorities is criminal justice reform, and there is certainly bipartisan appetite for that. I think we need to eliminate the cash bail system. We need to eliminate mandatory minimums. We need sentencing reform. I think we need parole reform as well.
Ayanna Pressley
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I hav

I’m a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I’m certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.
Tim Burton
If the Left can unilaterally impeach and try to remove a president during an election year, a Supreme Court justice can certainly be appointed during an election year.
Tom Fitton
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.
Norman Davies
I won’t admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.
John McEnroe
I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn’t catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.
Lothar Matthaus
I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
Harold Pinter
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people’s lives through advocacy and through supporting research – that’s the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it’s certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.
Michael J. Fox
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.
Maurice Sendak
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let’s say, over western Europe. You just can’t use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
Lloyd Cutler
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
Dolly Parton
In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.
Norman Davies
There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.
Paul Auster
I can’t control the criticism. It’s something you certainly don’t appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Don Shula
It’s certainly not easy for an outsider to make a mark because they don’t know anyone. You don’t get written about as nobody knows who you are. So, you don’t get that much attention when you are doing something compared to people that the media is aware of.
Nidhhi Agerwal
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it’s faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
Rowan Atkinson
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter De Vries