Ultimate Quotes
2059 quotes by 1451 authors
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
— Tom Robbins
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This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to…
— Frank Herbert
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of…
— Graham Greene
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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and…
— Frank Herbert
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If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
— Banksy
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It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will…
— Gene Roddenberry
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This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness…
— Dalai Lama
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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every…
— Alan Watts
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The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
— Frank Herbert
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
— Jasper Fforde
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The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the…
— Sheri L. Dew
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes…
— Dan Brown
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Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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