Certainly Quotes
3607 Certainly quotes by 2611 unique authors
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And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it."…
— Amy Tan
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For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
— Anais Nin
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Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can…
— Derek Landy
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Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church…
— Thomas Merton
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If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.
— Milan Kundera
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Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
— Virginia Woolf
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I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She laughed even as…
— Nora Roberts
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She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
— Bertrand Russell
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I shouldn't have said it, but the word slipped out of my mouth as easy as air. it wasn't exactly the kind of work any…
— Obert Skye
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Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
— Simone Weil
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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over,…
— Muriel Spark
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The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they…
— Sam Harris
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
— E. M. Forster
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If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I…
— Nick Hornby
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about…
— Ernest Hemingway
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He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of…
— Cassandra Clare
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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she…
— Jane Austen
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I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
— Flannery O'Connor
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...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how…
— Joan Bauer
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