Certainly Quotes
3607 Certainly quotes by 2611 unique authors
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I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
— Thomas Merton
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While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the…
— J D Salinger
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Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and…
— John le Carre
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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
— Steve Jobs
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You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe…
— John Flanagan
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From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said…
— Joseph Heller
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Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not.…
— Kate DiCamillo
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I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense…
— Tim Gunn
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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must…
— Terry Pratchett
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull…
— Jane Austen
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Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier…
— Karen Marie Moning
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world…
— Charles Darwin
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Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous…
— Boris Pasternak
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Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.
— Cassandra Clare
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Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright…
— Cassandra Clare
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None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book…
— Marcel Proust
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If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for…
— Stephen King
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But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go…
— Sarah MacLean
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Tohru: "Call a doctor, or a vet, or something! Mr. Postman! It's terrible! You see?! They're animals!" Mailman: "Well, uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's…
— Natsuki Takaya
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur…
— Vera Nazarian
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Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
— Walter Scott
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I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat…
— Harper Lee
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