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7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was… — Donna Tartt
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff,… — Neil Gaiman
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He… — Lisa Kleypas
The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s… — Cecelia Ahern
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And… — Agatha Christie
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to… — Ann Brashares
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If… — Richard Wright
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense… — Oswald Chambers
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo
At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could… — Dan Chaon
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the… — Walt Whitman
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our… — Baron de Montesquieu
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by… — Naomi Klein
I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly… — Pele
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely. — Lewis Carroll
I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous,… — Heidi Julavits
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).… — Edith Wharton
As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . .… — Markus Zusak
One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered. — Dan Brown

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