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7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't… — Suzanne Brockmann
There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and… — Christopher Paolini
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you… — Joseph Campbell
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make… — Tim Burton
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they… — James M. Barrie
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,… — Wilkie Collins
but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took… — Nicholas Sparks
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and… — Terry Pratchett
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the… — Emily Giffin
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of… — Philip K. Dick
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even… — Tanith Lee
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One… — Karen Russell
There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. — Karen Russell
mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's… — E E Cummings
Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the… — Jonathan Franzen
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it. — Kate Chopin
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. — Thomas Ligotti
Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. — George R. R. Martin
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions,… — Norton Juster
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing… — Alain de Botton
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen… — Wendell Berry
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — C S Forester

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