Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4860 authors
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And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the…
— Mortimer Adler
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Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown,…
— Juliet Marillier
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Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said,…
— Dorothy Parker
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How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?
— Suzanne Collins
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With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important,…
— Sheila Heti
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For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me…
— Shannon Hale
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It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most…
— Terry Pratchett
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[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at…
— Frederick Douglass
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...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever…
— Richard Brautigan
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Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me, or maybe you'll…
— Shannon Hale
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I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an…
— Frank Zappa
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While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut…
— Tessa Dare
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There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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