Absolute Quotes

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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of… — Frederic Bastiat
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love… — Clive Barker
My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think Iâ€™ll… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. — Aleister Crowley
...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some… — J R Ward
The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength. — Gena Showalter
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?"… — Erich Segal
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd… — Tim O'Brien
A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now… — Cecelia Ahern
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It… — Coco Chanel
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss… — Katherine Mansfield
You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'… — Tim O'Brien
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. — James Lee Burke
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on… — Sylvester Stallone
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very… — James A. Garfield
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision. — Paulo Coelho

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