Utmost Quotes
340 quotes by 282 authors
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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
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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
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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-Bahá
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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
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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