Absolutes Quotes · Page 18

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

— Seneca the Younger

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

— Christopher Reeve

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

— Honore de Balzac

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.

— Curt Mega

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

— Silvio Berlusconi

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

— Nicholas of Cusa

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

— Josh Lieb

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

— Woodrow Wilson

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I…

— George Harrison

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail…

— Paula Fox

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the…

— Eve Ensler

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

— Eddie Redmayne

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon…

— June Jordan

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

— Pablo Neruda

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by…

— Lord Chesterfield

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always…

— Mary Schapiro

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He…

— Mark Twain

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And…

— Alice Walker

No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter…

— J. C. Ryle

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned…

— Duff Goldman

As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease…

— Adolf Hitler

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found…

— Stanislaw Lem

Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and…

— Benjamin H. Freedman

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security…

— Adyashanti

A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not…

— C. Wright Mills

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism…

— Joseph Conrad

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is…

— Frederic Bastiat

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire…

— Wyndham Lewis

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt…

— Benjamin Tucker

Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research…

— Abhinavagupta

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

— James A. Garfield

I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.

— Jon Jones

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

— Casey Neistat

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

— Richard Watson Gilder

You don't need absolute knowledge to have reliable knowledge

— D. J. Grothe

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

— Kevin Warwick

Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute.

— John Feldmann