Absolute Quotes

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I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the… — James Luther Adams
The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed… — Gianluigi Buffon
Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and… — Julian Barnes
Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena ofÂ absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or… — Michel Houellebecq
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves… — Barney Frank
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really… — Roger Rosenblatt
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of… — John Brown
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard… — Romain Rolland
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels… — David Sylvester
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral… — Howard Lyman
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and… — Remy de Gourmont
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or… — Robert Greene
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country — Umberto Eco
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. — Edmund Wilson
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid… — Seth Low
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony… — Soren Kierkegaard

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