#certain

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#cities #imagination #justice #mankind #imagination

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#confusion #craziness #desperation #good-life #life

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#certainly #essentially #humans #i #i think

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances. ↗

— John Bolton

#against #being #certain #circumstances #defined

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#beginning #certain #even #felt #had

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#attained #certain #him #i #intimacy

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#applies #certain #equally #etc #instruments

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. ↗

— James Laughlin

#cam #case #certainly #deal #formative

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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