Quotes of: Certain-degree Keyword

Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that certain someone in your life? -Rusty Blackwood

Passions In Paris: Revelations Of A Lost Diary

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. 

A Pale View of Hills

The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved…

The Three Sisters

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Thirteen Reasons Why

We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later

The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.

Waiting for the Flood

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

When You Were Here

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

On Writing

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

We Shadows

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.

A Walk on the Wild Side

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

Weighed and Wanting

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

The Winged Watchman

I’m not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I’m awake. And afraid.

Winter Wonders

If 12 of the finest soldiers were asked to follow bravely into battle, and near certain death, then I’d be very grateful to be the 13th best fighter.


Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

You Don't Love Me Yet

There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers...

Idina Menzel