Absolutes Quotes - Page 5

• I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

  David Bowie

  Wife, Balance, Months

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• I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Frustration, Ignorant, Culture

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Independent, Cost, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Ocean, Law

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• God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.

  Rama Swami

  God, Two, Finals

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• Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Dirt, Bereft

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• Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox's hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.

  Michio Kaku

  Zero, Law, Boards

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.

  Betty Friedan

  Taken, Media, Organization

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13 hours. I make that an absolute rule and I always feel fresh afterwards and never have jet lag.

  Jackie Collins

  Sleep, Tea, Lag

  "Jackie Collins's Travelling Life". Interview with Ruth Huntman, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 10, 2015.

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• Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

  Dacia Maraini

  Ideas, Liberty, Fiction

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.

  Talal Asad

  Thinking, Humanity, Needs

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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• For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.

  Talal Asad

  Order, Law, People

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• My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Father, Real, Ideas

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• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Philosophy, Men, Scripture

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• One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of moral conduct referred to as "situational ethics." Now, individuals define good and evil as being adjustable according to each situation; this is in direct contrast to the proclaimed God-given absolute standard: "Thou shalt not!"-as in "Thou shalt not steal".

  David B. Haight

  Evil, World, Absolutism

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• For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Blessed, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Vices, Soup, Facts

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• I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.

  Brad Bird

  Dream, Thinking, Pie

  "Brad Bird Talks 'Iron Giant: Signature Edition', The Original Ending, And More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

  Paul Auster

  Blessed, Luck, Second Marriage

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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