Certainly Quotes
3607 Certainly quotes by 2611 unique authors
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When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that…
— Louis L'Amour
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We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused…
— Thomas Pynchon
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of…
— Johnny Cash
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Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?
— Eoin Colfer
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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the…
— Terry Pratchett
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Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his…
— Michel Faber
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Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would…
— Bill Bryson
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Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging…
— Alexander Shulgin
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My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
— William Saroyan
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I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in…
— Graham Chapman
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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
— Daniel Dennett
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The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
— Michael Crichton
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Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the…
— Ian Rankin
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... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or…
— Harold Bloom
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch…
— Jane Austen
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Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second:…
— Truman Capote
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Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
— Emily Giffin
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional…
— Alex Haley
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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