"There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get."
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"You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it."
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"In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger."
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"Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all."
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"Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man."
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"There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day."
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"When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again."
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"This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love."
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"Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots."
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"You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on."
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"There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible."
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"You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing."
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"External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility."
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"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
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"Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us."
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"The only certain freedom's in departure."
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"Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny."
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"There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred."
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"Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway."
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"This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves."
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