War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
Donald Trump

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
Bear Bryant

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
Pope John Paul II

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
Audrey Hepburn

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal