Certain Quotes
7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors
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There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I…
— Richard Paul Evans
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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
— John Steinbeck
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I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so…
— J M Coetzee
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If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.
— George Orwell
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I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away,…
— Jan Karon
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can…
— Alberto Moravia
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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden…
— Saint Augustine
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Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room…
— Paulo Coelho
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He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
— John Steinbeck
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It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
— Ernest Hemingway
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It doesn't hurt." "But my eyes do," said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon…
— Cassandra Clare
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During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and…
— Vladimir Lenin
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There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.
— Harlan Coben
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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain…
— Mark Twain
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