Absolute Quotes
1809 quotes by 1307 authors
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I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
— Neil Gaiman
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism,…
— H P Lovecraft
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Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone…
— Stephen King
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I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in…
— Luke Davies
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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of…
— Jacob Bronowski
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God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
— Antonin Artaud
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The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in…
— John Piper
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I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case,…
— Michael Polanyi
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It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But…
— Alan Moore
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Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his…
— Ayn Rand
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Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is…
— Aravind Adiga
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute…
— Oscar Wilde
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How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has…
— Ann Voskamp
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