Finals Quotes - Page 14

• Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Planning, Results, Staring

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dream, People, Ignorant

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

  John Cage

  Answers, Absurd, Courses

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.

  Michael Eisner

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a brother, Jeffrey Reddick.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Brother, Cat, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Beautiful, Together

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

  David Crosby

  Men, Waste, Currency

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Powerful

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Sources say the Obama administration is in the 'final stages' of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it's gonna work is, they're going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Radio, Way, Administration

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• Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Secret, Too Late, Members

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Responsibility, Thinking, Government

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Catholic

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• Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

  Edward Abbey

  May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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• No failure is final unless you ratify it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  No Failure

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• Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Evil, Would Be, Path

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• Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

  Dave Barry

  Aquariums, People, Ascent

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.70, Crown Archetype

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• So after those Games, I continued to compete that season and the year after that. I really had the goal of being intentional. I didn't want to do big tricks because it was an X Games final or an Olympics final. I wanted to call my own shots. I started to do that and I started to have more fun than I ever knew I could have.

  Kelly Clark

  Fun, Years, Games

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Discovery, Purpose

  Introduction to "Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God", translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, 1944.

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• I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

  Colin Fletcher

  Passion, Addiction, Madness

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.15, Knopf

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• One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on each other. The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Character, Heart, Men

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• Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

  R. C. Sproul

  Perspective, Speak, Authority

  R. C. Sproul (2009). “Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

  Wim Wenders

  Cutting, Worry

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• Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Harbors

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Lasts, Six

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