Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4693 authors
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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional…
— Thom Mayne
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There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity…
— Alan Watts
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You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired…
— Napoleon Hill
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We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
— Bob Goff
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I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.
— Ivy Baker Priest
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Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. What you…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That…
— Langston Hughes
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The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also…
— Dalai Lama
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If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner
— Sun Tzu
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I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.
— Diane von Furstenberg
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One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
— Bruce Lee
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write…
— Susan Orlean
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So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions…
— Eduard Hanslick
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So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and…
— Bruno Schulz
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
— Samuel Johnson
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You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for…
— Eric Hoffer
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.
— Wladimir Klitschko
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