Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.
He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.
You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.
What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.
I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless.
Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
There is a certain kind of darkness that seeps into our lives if we are not actively engaged in creating light.
Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?
Because I'm not really certain she'd make the best travel partner through a zombie-infested city, he hissed. She gets confused by Scrabble.
It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.
There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge? Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration.
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
