Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4823 authors
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun…
— Suzanne Collins
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I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the…
— Franny Billingsley
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As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help…
— John Dewey
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Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
— Nicole Krauss
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It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are…
— James M. Barrie
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Does he love me? “You’re asking the wrong question. What you need to know is are you in a position to give him the love…
— Paulo Coelho
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Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,…
— Paulo Coelho
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I know! It means when two boys are really happy ‘cause they love each other.†She laughed. He wasn’t certain whether to laugh along with…
— Alex Sanchez
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It's Mari, Jack," Ken whispered, needing to say it aloud. "What?" Jack jerked around, staring at the sniper as the eyes fluttered closed. "Are you…
— Christine Feehan
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Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.
— Christine Feehan
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness…
— Terry Pratchett
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I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in…
— Luke Davies
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One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
— Frank Herbert
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There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend…
— Adam Gidwitz
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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I need a weapon,†Valkyrie muttered. “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in a variety of martial arts by some of the best…
— Derek Landy
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
— Unknown Author
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I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked…
— James Patterson
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So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,…
— Ralph Ellison
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