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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of… — Carl Sagan
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. — Julian Barnes
I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how… — Maggie Stiefvater
i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain… — William Goldman
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared… — Steven Pressfield
It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you… — David Levithan
In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings
Be confident, not certain — Eleanor Roosevelt
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is… — Thomas Mann
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. — Charlotte Bronte
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose… — Aberjhani
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. — Albert Camus
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says,… — Agatha Christie
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton
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
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
... 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
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
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
How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love? — Suzanne Collins
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
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
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
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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