Certainly Quotes
3607 quotes by 2680 authors
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
— Jane Austen
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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I…
— Jane Austen
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When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct…
— Frederic Bastiat
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I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women…
— Henry Adams
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The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
— Thomas Jefferson
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While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.…
— George Washington
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger…
— George Washington
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The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It…
— Annie Leibovitz
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Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of…
— John Marshall
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....
— James Madison
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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly…
— Henry Fielding
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Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
— Jurgen Habermas
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like…
— Michel Foucault
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As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.
— Hannibal
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different…
— Dan Quayle
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Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain…
— John von Neumann
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England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest…
— Mitt Romney
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Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored…
— Mitt Romney
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Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly…
— James Patterson
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