Certainly Quotes
3607 quotes by 2660 authors
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I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to…
— Condoleezza Rice
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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at…
— John le Carre
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Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there…
— Wesley Clark
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While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount…
— Jane Jacobs
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English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a…
— Alessandro Manzoni
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I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.
— George Soros
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with…
— Alain Badiou
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Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the…
— Abdul Kalam
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By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know.…
— Darin Strauss
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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are…
— Anthony Hecht
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We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in…
— Michael Mullen
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That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different…
— John Zorn
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I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come…
— John Cage
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
— J D Salinger
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen,…
— John Ensign
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