Ultimate Quotes
2059 quotes by 1507 authors
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A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever…
— Jane Austen
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Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a…
— R A Salvatore
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No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
— Philip K. Dick
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Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
— Marilynne Robinson
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Your peace of mind, your assurance of answers to vexing problems, your ultimate joy depend upon your trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus…
— Richard G. Scott
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You…
— Tom Stoppard
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was…
— Cormac McCarthy
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For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
— Robin Hobb
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Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you." "Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before." "Are you…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing…
— Nikola Tesla
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The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.
— Chris Claremont
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Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for…
— James Allen
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The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once…
— Francis Schaeffer
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The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle…
— David Levithan
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Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be…
— T.A. Barron
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