Certain Dates Quotes

#1. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. JOURNEY: I don't need my dad knowing my love life until I'm certain the guy can stick around for more than three dates - my current romantic record.

Bijou Hunter

#3. Nature was still out there. There was less of it, to be sure, but it was there just the same.

Richard Louv

#4. Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.

George R R Martin

#5. I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.

Ken Burns

#6. Marsh had travelled on foot to the source of the Nile and once stood down a charging rhinoceros by intrepidly opening a pink umbrella in its face.

Wade Davis

#7. What interests me is the experience of ordinary people. To tell you the truth, although I can repeat certain dates, statistics, and so on, what I am really curious about is what happens to ordinary men, women, and children in extraordinary times.

Jacqueline Winspear

#8. Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. "It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied.

Lewis Carroll

#9. I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.

Joshua Bell

#10. I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

Vanessa Hudgens

#11. We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

Ron Kind

#12. People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!

NisiOisiN

#13. Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

Frances Wright

#14. Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Bruce Lee

#15. Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I
was once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

Mike O'Malley

#17. I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts ... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

Rudy Giuliani

#18. Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,
Making all bright,
Good night! Good night!

Victor Hugo

#19. The Light shines brightest, when the world is at its darkest.

Michael Lackey

#20. For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter

#21. There's still time for greatness

Andrew Craig

#22. It is 23.32 p.m. I still believe in symmetry, so this will be the last part. You've reached an end if you come back to where you started. I also remain superstitious about certain numbers. I use 23 and 32 for my lottery tickets, for example. It extends to dates. I still see signs.

Olivia Sudjic

#23. Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

M. Scott Peck