Absolute Quotes

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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. — Pierre Corneille
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. — Rafael Correa
Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself,… — Simon Cowell
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. — Roald Dahl
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry… — Annie Dillard
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a… — Lawrence Durrell
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known… — George Eliot
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the… — Gustave Flaubert
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think… — Michael Haneke
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force. — Sheikh Hasina
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. — Ernest Hemingway
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies… — Eric Hoffer
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and… — Simon Hoggart
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but… — Mark Hoppus
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government.… — Hubert H. Humphrey

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