Certainly Quotes
3607 quotes by 2611 authors
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There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things…
— Neil Gaiman
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Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses…
— Veronica Roth
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The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to…
— Ray Bradbury
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I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.
— Mira Grant
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Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.
— Osamu Dazai
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When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
— Mercedes Lackey
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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the…
— Jane Austen
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From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game:…
— Georges Perec
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Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they"…
— Stephen King
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While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.
— Mary Kay Ash
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If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.†“So you’re into it.†“Withholding judgment! When can I…
— John Green
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As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by…
— Norman Maclean
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Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
— Arthur Rimbaud
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What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That…
— Douglas Adams
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Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but…
— Gene Roddenberry
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The widow’s eyebrows raised. “Ye’ve got all these nasty pooches to run around with and ye still might die?†“I’m going to go fight with…
— Kevin Hearne
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