Certainly Quotes

3607 Certainly quotes by 2611 unique authors

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter… — Tad Williams
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are… — George Eliot
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to… — C.S. Lewis
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for. — Joseph Heller
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts… — Henry Miller
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time… — Hunter S. Thompson
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about… — Paulo Coelho
… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually… — Terry Pratchett
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. — Neal A. Maxwell
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of… — Voltaire
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little… — Jane Austen
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir. — P.G. Wodehouse
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. — P.G. Wodehouse
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the… — W. Somerset Maugham
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough… — Kathleen Norris
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of… — C.S. Lewis
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't… — James A. Baldwin
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like… — Charles Frazier
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly… — Henry David Thoreau
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens,… — Anne Frank
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions… — George Eliot
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates

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