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“The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.”

Certain Advantage Dues Portions Anticipation Payment

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

“It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.”

May Littles Spirit Certain Too Much Dangerous Claims Occasions Yield Distrust Captivating

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.”

Men Light Earth Law Certain Courses Destiny Influence Events Strange Ordinary Seasons Mark Guides Comets Erratic Portents

Author:Bill Vaughan

“By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.”

Hands Age Certain Gone Fate Greatness Eloquence Hand In Hand

Book:Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton

Source: Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton

“You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.”

Thinking World Way Certain Forget Boundaries Another World Campus

Author:James Van Der Beek

“Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.”

Sometimes Certain Force Acting Personality Exercise Muscles Really Cool

Author:Jenna Fischer

“I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.”

People Believe I Can Today America Certain Situation Support Example Abuse Gross Compounds Fundamentalist America Today

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.”

People Thinking Together Certain Couple Strain

Author:Alexandra Chando

“Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Looks Kind Certain Actors Pieces Fit Scene Bigger Honestly Puzzles Puzzle Piece

Author:Sarah Shahi

“I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Eye Action Certain Levels Tears Degrees Appreciate Excitement Action Movie Anything In Life

Author:Donnie Yen

“A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.”

Way Body Film Certain Modern Example Periods Bounds Traditional Gestures Wardrobe

Author:Donnie Yen

“For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.”

Character Film Form Certain Challenges Acting Periods Historical Burden Backgrounds Contemporary Gestures

Author:Donnie Yen

“My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.”

Political Certain Parent Generations Involved Conscience My Generation

Author:Daniel Bruhl

“There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Certain Song Liberty Creative Long Time Sacred Lists

Author:Keith Urban

“Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.”

Needs Spiritual Certain Quality Opposites Practicals Like Me Interiors Materialistic Miami Moody Flair

Author:Iggy Pop

“You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.”

Way Ends Certain Color

Author:Emmylou Harris

“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.”

Certain Actors Week Television Screens

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.”

Way Want Ideas Feelings Able Certain My Own Behinds Directors Hollywood Cameras Structure Mediums

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Certain Bits Little Bit Thought Provoking Sci Fi Provoking Grey Pondering

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.”

Mind Certain Boys Source Bears Benefits Intellectual Regard Access Peculiar Wiser Deprived Attainment

Author:John Farrar

“Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.”

Mean Certain Judging Pressure

Author:John Simm

“People are constantly trying to make an image for you. They`ll dress you up and tell you to pose a certain way and take all these pictures... they want a certain image, so they create that. And unless you`re spending a lot of time to create another image to counteract that image, theirs will win. So right now, I`m kind of dealing with a lot of false ideas of what I`m about.”

People Way Want Trying Kind Ideas Certain Winning Right Now Dresses Spending

Author:River Phoenix

“As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.”

Certain Actors Roles Comfort Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Matt Bomer

“Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.”

Bigs Certain Stuff Watches Fans Horror Aliens Genre Classic Scare Horror Genre Exorcist

Author:Katharine Isabelle

“When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.”

Character Certain Circumstances Creating Playing Someone

Author:Oscar Isaac

“Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.”

People Care Film Certain Mines Hero Projects Edges Dylan Microcosm Portraying Great Hero

Author:Matthew Rhys

“People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.”

People Ifs Thinking Done Happens Age Young Lying Certain Havens Youth Amount Insignificant

Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh

“Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.”

Humans Stills Certain Heaven Human Beings Sacrifice Possibility Rewards Satisfaction Certainty Contentment Grants Unending

Author:Cornelia Parker

“People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.”

People Knows Way Feels Persons I Can Certain Courses Sleep Talking Who I Am Going To Sleep

Author:Richard Gere

“Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.”

Needs Wells Seems Certain Fighting Battle Accounts Covered Need You Beyonce I Am Pretty

Author:Shirley Manson

“I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.”

Thinking Doe Past Certain Musician My Past

Author:John Sebastian

“Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.”

Looks Play Light Age Certain Plastic Surgery Lighting Cheaper Plastic Surgery

Author:Bryan Batt

“When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.”

Certain Song Emotion Stage

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.”

Long Christian America Certain Passion Christ Civilization Messages Extraordinary Seeds Islamic Passion Of The Christ

Author:Michael Moriarty

“A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.”

Ends Character Certain Interesting Degrees Elements Glamour Sexiness

Author:Erin Cummings

“I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.”

People Thinking Knows Want Ideas Different Certain Individual Interesting Corruption Accidents Acquire Very Interesting Power Corruption

Author:David Morrissey

“I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.”

Long America Remember Certain Turns Events Kings Proportion Tragic Luther Bobby Kennedy

Author:Richard Schiff

“There are certain things women are better at than men.”

Author:Adam Carolla

“I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again. My wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but it's - I don't really think too much about it.”

Thinking Kind Play Hands Together Certain Black White Too Much Elements Late Black And White Phases Again And Again Wardrobe

Author:Daphne Guinness

“Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.”

Way Feels Different Feelings Beautiful Film Certain Order Deals Cutting Movement Particular Contrast Abstraction Arranging

Author:David Lynch

“I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Littles Ideas Feelings Certain Understanding Sound Darkness Comfortable Understood Built Areas Pops Intuition Confusion Things In Life Love Feeling Images Of Love

Author:David Lynch

“I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.”

Want Feels Ends Moments Dream Beautiful Guy Certain Fall Left Forget Alive Mystery Danger Intense Beautiful Things Percentages Forget It Let Down Jake Chinatown

Author:David Lynch

“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.”

Thinking Mind Humans Age Certain Loses Human Beings Nice Wonderful Acceptance Youth Gains Fairs Peace Of Mind Stamina

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.”

Way Needs Looks Certain Stars Bits Attention Too Much Fashion Draws Assassins

Author:Maggie Q

“In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.”

Way Certain Aspect Smell Ingredients Association Avenues

Author:Grant Achatz

“I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.”

Ifs Believe Wells Might Certain I Believe I Believe In Release Users Outlets Indulge Abusers

Author:Grace Jones

“I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.”

Thinking Knows Way Guy Certain Walks Rooms Demand This Guy Billionaire

Author:Sabrina Bryan

“It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.”

People World Certain This World Silly

Author:Kevin Smith

“Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.”

Facts Certain Causes Born Gone Effects Events Endless Chains Stand Alone

Author:Julian Johnson