You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're -… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most… — Richard M. Schulze Copy Share Image
Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day;… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity. — Shiko Munakata Copy Share Image
Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it.… — Ruthie Henshall Copy Share Image
If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius. — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image