Final Quotes

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Thereâ€™s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that itâ€™s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from… — Richard P. Feynman
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can… — Walter Lippmann
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's… — Eric Hoffer
What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to… — William Faulkner
When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people. — Anne Tyler
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final… — Lillian Hellman
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on… — Greg Peterson
There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home. — Katherine Marsh
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes,… — Juvenal
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one… — Albert Camus
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble,… — Evelyn Waugh
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. — Alfred North Whitehead
I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy… — William Styron
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk… — Harold Bloom
In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even… — Mary McCarthy
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because… — Ken Burns
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. — Arthur Bloch
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from… — Josiah Royce

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