Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4860 authors
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The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I…
— Kim Wilde
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then,…
— CeCe Winans
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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
— D. A. Carson
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There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you…
— Jim Carrey
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I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts…
— C. D. Broad
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It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
— David Hume
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
— William Hazlitt
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
— Sydney J. Harris
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...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is…
— Marsden Wagner
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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about…
— Jason Lee
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Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the…
— David Soul
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I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to…
— Gloria Allred
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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart…
— Dean Koontz
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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't…
— John C. Maxwell
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Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
— David Foster Wallace
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