Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4823 authors
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To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
— Nadeem Aslam
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They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So…
— Veronica Roth
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God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time…
— Joyce Meyer
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.…
— Pema Chodron
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The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are…
— Thomas Merton
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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed…
— Mitch Albom
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There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.
— Christine Feehan
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We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone…
— George Orwell
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me…
— Isadora Duncan
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It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip.…
— Sherwood Smith
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what…
— Shane Claiborne
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What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue…
— Denzel Washington
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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
— Robert Jordan
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It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.
— Robert Ludlum
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A…
— Graham Greene
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There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage…
— Albert Camus
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