Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed.
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.
Sometimes you don’t choose greatness, it chooses you. And when it does, it requires a certain level of understandin', courage and a degree of blind hope.
You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.
It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.
For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.
Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.
There are certain moments in life of open-minded people... which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven.
Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.
I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.
Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.
I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.
What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
