"When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant."
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"It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good."
"Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you."
"Certain rhythms just have certain moods."
"One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love"
"There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures."
"There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction."
"It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner."
"But certain winds will make men's temper bad."
"The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public."
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
"It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command."
"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."
"One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change."
"There is a certain swagger with vampires."
"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."
"In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life."
"The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events."
"I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest."
"If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure."