Certain Quotes

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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death.… — Ellen Hopkins
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No,… — Anna Akhmatova
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. — Unknown Author
Certain things need not be said, and thereâ€™s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change… — Alice Hoffman
Why havenâ€™t you asked me how I do my tricks?â€ Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not… — Erin Morgenstern
There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move… — Rachel Caine
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. — Jonathan Nolan
For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. — Alan Moore
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives… — Joseph Addison
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do… — Michael Lewis
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would… — James Beard
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… — Alain de Botton
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. — Margaret Atwood
You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so… — Julie Garwood
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather… — Karl Popper
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a… — Oscar Wilde
...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it. — Robert Cormier
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential… — Suzanne Collins
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is… — Carl Jung

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