It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
The only way to describe my involvement in Planes is that its an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit.… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image