Finally Quotes
3507 Finally quotes by 2328 unique authors
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We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
— Pierre Omidyar
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up…
— May Sarton
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And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of…
— John F. Kennedy
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There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;…
— Isadora Duncan
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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
— Julia Child
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I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find…
— Unknown Author
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
— Thomas Merton
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Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop…
— Derrick Jensen
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Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl…
— Eddie Condon
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High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A…
— Aldo Leopold
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War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the…
— Karl Kraus
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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you…
— Daniel Berrigan
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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and…
— Frank Borman
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The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely…
— Gore Vidal
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People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
— Baron d'Holbach
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The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do…
— John Dewey
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One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy…
— F. C. S. Schiller
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Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is,…
— Roger Ebert
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This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and…
— John Glenn
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Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and…
— Rita Rudner
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally…
— George Washington
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It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to…
— Bill Gates
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