Certain Quotes

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It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the… — Bernhard Schlink
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress,… — Charlotte Bronte
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount… — Bertrand Russell
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded… — Sam Harris
Iâ€™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 friendâ€™s life. Friends choose certain friends because thatâ€™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

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