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3607 Certainly quotes by 2611 unique authors

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. — Max Brooks
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is… — Susanna Clarke
Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much… — C.S. Lewis
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. — P.G. Wodehouse
Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. — Philip K. Dick
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.' Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.' And anything worth dying for,'… — Joseph Heller
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly… — Epicurus
Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful,… — Alberto Manguel
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said… — Douglas Adams
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a… — Haruki Murakami
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our… — John Stuart Mill
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are… — Swami Vivekananda
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of… — Charles Bukowski
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't… — Terry Pratchett
If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person… — Dalai Lama

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