Absolute Quotes

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I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right… — Norman Mailer
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much… — Chogyam Trungpa
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state… — Ludwig von Mises
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it? — Edwina Currie
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my… — Eda LeShan
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. — Barnett Newman
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing… — Michael Winner
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors,… — Theodore Sturgeon
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. — Anthony Eden
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. — Lucian Freud
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. — Ernest Mandel
I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things. — Kevin Pietersen
It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job. — Stuart Pearce
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. — Randall Dale Adams
In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative… — David Cameron
There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated. — Robert Pinsky
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the… — Richard Stallman

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