Finality Quotes

63 quotes by 60 authors

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction… — Eleanor Roosevelt
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. — Billy Graham
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the… — Eric Temple Bell
Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality… — Paul Davies
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch… — Aaron Siskind
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative… — Ambrose Bierce
I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end. — Elizabeth Banks
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate… — Rachel Carson
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is,… — George Bernard Shaw
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. — Carlos Ghosn
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to… — Sarah Vowell
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. — Sylvia Plath
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and… — Miguel de Unamuno
No more Dane,â€ he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. â€œI can't decide if that means you don't want me to… — Lisa Kleypas
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. — Dan Brown
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of… — Aberjhani
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin

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