Certain Point Quotes
208 quotes by 188 authors
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perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that…
— Barack Obama
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
— Franz Kafka
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...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me.…
— Chris Crutcher
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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
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At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could…
— Dan Chaon
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I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous,…
— Heidi Julavits
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But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were…
— Elizabeth Strout
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The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no…
— Jim Butcher
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A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
— Douglas Coupland
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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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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
— Jodi Picoult
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Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is…
— Jodi Picoult
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I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I…
— James Frey
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I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not…
— Jonathan Franzen
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.…
— Pema Chodron
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At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.
— Lauren Oliver
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A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its…
— Haruki Murakami
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I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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