Certain Quotes

7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal, — Howard Barker
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care â€” if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option… — Gore Vidal
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books… — Dionne Brand
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car,… — Paul Theroux
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of… — Diane Ravitch
And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people its not, but for me its a choice, and you dont get… — Cynthia Nixon
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a… — Michael Shermer
Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived… — Steven Erikson
Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make? — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found… — W G Sebald
Certain kinds of clichÃ©s are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes
I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the… — Anders Behring Breivik
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of… — Marsilio Ficino
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority — Nicolas Chamfort
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use… — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a… — Lin Yutang
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized â€“ the right to be… — Edward Kennedy
I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to… — Carol Moseley Braun

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