Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4693 authors
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum…
— Thomas Carlyle
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We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it…
— Lewis Thomas
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As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and…
— John F. Kennedy
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Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know.…
— Edward Teller
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Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
— Alexis Bledel
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
— Steven Morrissey
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The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons…
— Laurence Silberman
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be.…
— Og Mandino
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I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
— Neil Cavuto
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John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain…
— Terry Gilliam
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Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get…
— Rosie Perez
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I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
— Leelee Sobieski
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I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in…
— Dorothy Stratten
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I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than…
— James Stewart
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Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life…
— Frank Drake
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