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The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain. — Monica Ali
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. — Sherwood Smith
I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different… — Hayao Miyazaki
The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is… — Portia de Rossi
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous… — David Eddings
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The fear is like metal on my tongueâ€”Iâ€™ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet Iâ€™m certain if I accept his suit, it… — Nalini Singh
Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain that my husband… — Sarah MacLean
I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. Iâ€™ve been playing with dead people since… — Darynda Jones
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took… — Edith Wharton
He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind… — Terry Pratchett
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between â€˜I… — Anne Carson
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary… — Anne Sexton
In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any… — Julie Garwood
Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an… — Jack Kornfield
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to… — Anais Nin
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for… — Vincent Van Gogh
You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it… — Irving Stone
love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had… — Ruskin Bond
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… — Douglas Hofstadter

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