Absolute Quotes

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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute… — Giorgio Armani
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of… — Mikhail Bakunin
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or… — Mikhail Bakunin
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between… — Dave Barry
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. — Bruce Barton
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse… — Simone de Beauvoir
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a… — Simone de Beauvoir
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame… — Cate Blanchett
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. — David Bowie
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to… — David Bowie
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am… — Harold Brodkey
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. — Marlon Brando
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. — David Brinkley
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat… — Alton Brown
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less… — Madeleine Albright

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