Utmost Quotes

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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
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way… — Giovanni Boccaccio
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what… — Italo Calvino
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — W. Somerset Maugham
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The… — Vaclav Havel
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care… — Oscar Wilde
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. — George Bernard Shaw
Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward.… — Gene Wolfe
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham
Sir,â€™ said Stephen, â€˜I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is… — Albert Camus
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your… — Azar Nafisi
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair… — John Calvin
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. — Hermann Hesse

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