Absolutes Quote by James Tiptree Jr Download Open image “Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.” — James Tiptree Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutes Dangerous Extremes
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
“DOCTOR AIN WAS recognized on the Omaha-Chicago flight. A biologist colleague from Pasadena came out of the toilet and saw Ain in an aisle… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter. — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
“—so much more opportunity now." Her voice trails off. "Hurrah for women's lib, eh?" "The lib?" Impatiently she leans forward and tugs the serape… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
“He was wise in the ways of pain. He had to be, for he felt none. When the Xenons put electrodes to his testicles,… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature. — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
“Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air whereupon she crawls wingless.” — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry.… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
“Well, then. Whatever trauma you went through, these things don't last forever. You can't hate all men." The smile is back. "Oh, there wasn't… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image