Certainly Quotes

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The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological… — Barry Lopez
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;… — Salman Rushdie
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J M Coetzee
All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits… — David Emerald Womeldorff
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces… — William S. Burroughs
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. — Benjamin Franklin
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now… — J. William Fulbright
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is… — Cus D'Amato
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a… — Dave Eggers
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the… — Orlando Bloom
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by… — August Wilson
Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find… — Joseph C. Lincoln
I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. — Richard Adams
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion… — Paul Nitze
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of… — Thomas Jefferson

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