Ultimate Quotes

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Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world… — Dalai Lama
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance… — Richard Matheson
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. — Bernard Beckett
Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation… — Tommy Tenney
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. — Irving Stone
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or… — J. G. Ballard
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. — Neil Gaiman
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more… — Henry James
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the… — C.S. Lewis
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are. — Dean Koontz
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man,… — Albert Camus
. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even… — Candace Bushnell
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off… — William James
I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them… — Gary Chapman
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't… — Randy Pausch
When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at… — Anne Rice

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