Finite Quotes

322 Finite quotes by 240 unique authors

Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. — John Green
What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the… — Phil Harding
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man,… — Pope Benedict XVI
Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around… — Greg Laurie
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where… — Rabindranath Tagore
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore… — Lewis Carroll
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on… — George Monbiot
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under… — Thomas Carlyle
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and… — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all… — Felicia Day
Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important. — Ethan Hawke
There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. — Ethan Hawke
There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's… — B. J. Novak
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. — Eric McCormack
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to… — George Washington
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — Leo Tolstoy
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. — Herman Melville
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over… — Dave Barry
Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is the center of… — Anodea Judith

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