Absolutely Quotes
3248 Absolutely quotes by 2322 unique authors
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of…
— Eric Hoffer
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The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking…
— Peter Høeg
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children…
— Olympia Dukakis
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write…
— John Thorn
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Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents,…
— Kim Wilde
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
— Roald Dahl
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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely…
— Edward Hoagland
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So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
— Gloria Steinem
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What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
— Samuel Adams
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There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
— George Washington
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious…
— Thomas Paine
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Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading…
— Terry Pratchett
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Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I have a very strong opinion. I'm absolutely against it. I'm against the challenge system. I'm for the way it is right now. Don't change…
— Roger Federer
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Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.
— Charles M. Schulz
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Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such…
— Margaret Sanger
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
— Henry Fielding
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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand…
— Carl Jung
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Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where…
— Jacques Barzun
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