Utterly Quotes
850 quotes by 690 authors
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The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world…
— David Graeber
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God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied…
— Robert Bellarmine
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I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.
— Julia Child
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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death;…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and…
— Rajneesh
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Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on…
— Emma Goldman
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The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is…
— Charles Darwin
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence…
— Tony Blair
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying.…
— Alain de Botton
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Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
— Michael Heseltine
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A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me…
— Leon Uris
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Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet,…
— Thomas Raymond Kelly
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Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when…
— Jamake Highwater
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And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.
— Alexander Barclay
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Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
— Walter J. Phillips
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The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to…
— Luther Burbank
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No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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