Ultimately Quotes

1820 Ultimately quotes by 1326 unique authors

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall. — Daniel Quinn
In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,… — Cormac McCarthy
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people… — Oscar Wilde
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… — Philip Yancey
As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have… — Jonathan Lethem
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of… — John Gardner
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering… — Pope Benedict XVI
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because… — Robert Creeley
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something… — Robert Wright
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was… — Jared Diamond
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.… — George Orwell
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. — John Kennedy Toole
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. — Alberto Manguel
If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist. — Patricia Briggs
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. — Sue Monk Kidd
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?… — Sue Monk Kidd
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits… — Viktor E. Frankl
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel
He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people. — Charles Spurgeon
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard

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