Finals Quotes
1426 Finals quotes by 1102 unique authors
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For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily…
— Michel Foucault
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and…
— John Irving
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
— Zbigniew Herbert
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The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,…
— E. M. Forster
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And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death…
— John Irving
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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,'…
— Joshua Ferris
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final…
— J D Salinger
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I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
— Li-Young Lee
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
— Ray Bradbury
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that…
— John Green
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong,…
— Ayn Rand
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude.…
— Katharine Hepburn
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will…
— Max Lucado
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Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.…
— Aldo Leopold
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