Absolute Quotes

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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid… — Mahatma Gandhi
So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that. — Tim Gunn
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet… — Nicole Krauss
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things… — Barbara Kingsolver
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though… — Bertrand Russell
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take… — Howard Nemerov
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we… — Garth Stein
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is… — William James
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the… — D. H. Lawrence
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that,… — Ann Druyan
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. — George Lois
Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the… — Sue Monk Kidd
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history… — Isaac Asimov
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in… — E. M. Forster

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