Utmost Quotes

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and… — H P Lovecraft
Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved… — Virginia Woolf
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them… — Ludwig von Mises
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? — Soren Kierkegaard
Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-" "Ask me if… — Jeaniene Frost
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch.… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I… — Franz Kafka
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his… — Lois Lowry
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you… — Haruki Murakami
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in… — Virginia Woolf
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. — Giacomo Casanova
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's… — Miyamoto Musashi
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no… — Ilona Andrews
Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the… — Iain Banks
We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only… — Erich Fromm
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden… — Knut Hamsun
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing… — Susan Cain

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