Certainly Quotes
3607 Certainly quotes by 2611 unique authors
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through…
— Charles Dickens
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which…
— Isaac Newton
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I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.
— Diana Gabaldon
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Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
— John Steinbeck
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Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
— Anna Quindlen
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Lend and I certainly didn't start off on the right foot"-only Raquel would refer to Lend punching her and then us imprisoning him in an…
— Kiersten White
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God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not…
— Johanna Spyri
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I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.
— Jodi Picoult
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I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside…
— Joe Dunthorne
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Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not…
— Lauren Oliver
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These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to have…
— Cassandra Clare
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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
— Cressida Cowell
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It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his…
— Victor Hugo
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We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine,…
— Franny Billingsley
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Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go…
— Jennifer Estep
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If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
— Georgette Heyer
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We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
— Corey Taylor
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
— Bill Bryson
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...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be…
— Greg Behrendt
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