Certain Quotes
7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and…
— Rene Descartes
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a…
— Fannie Flagg
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My lord...I can explain-," Louis-Cesare began, looking less than certain that he could do anything of the kind. Radu held up a hand. "I am…
— Karen Chance
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Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing.…
— Denis Johnson
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When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can…
— Richard Carlson
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Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.…
— Emily Giffin
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If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to…
— Brigham Young
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they…
— Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.
— James Patterson
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one…
— Rollo May
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Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is…
— Rajneesh
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A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to…
— Mo Willems
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I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their…
— Octavio Paz
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You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out…
— Sylvia Plath
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How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain…
— Libba Bray
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When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past…
— Janet Fitch
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Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has…
— Cormac McCarthy
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