Finals Quotes
1426 Finals quotes by 1102 unique authors
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Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
— William Faulkner
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The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . .…
— Ronald Reagan
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He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear…
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
— Italo Calvino
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Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
— J. G. Ballard
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
— Marquis de Sade
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[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact…
— James Madison
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether…
— Adolf Hitler
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
— Iris Murdoch
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally…
— Hannah Arendt
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Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're…
— Peggy Noonan
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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.…
— Unknown Author
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It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in…
— Susan Sontag
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Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there.…
— John F. Kennedy
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