Finals Quotes - Page 37

• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

  Walther von Brauchitsch

  Mean, Men, People

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 203), 1947.

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• Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

  David Rudisha

  Records, World, Olympics

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• Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.

  David Bentley Hart

  Christian, Believe, Revolution

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• Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Hero, Ocean

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society.

  John T. Flynn

  Dark, Men, Evil

  "As We Go Marching".

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• In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

  James Sinegal

  Analysis, Pay

  "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Believe, House, Heaven

  Letter to a friend in July 1981. "In Memoriam R. W. van Bemmelen," Geologie en Mijnbouw, Volume 63, No. 1, 1984.

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• Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Satisfaction, Computer

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.36, Penguin Books India

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• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  Peter Bart

  Falling In Love, Cutting, Serious

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• The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Revenge, Lying, Book

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, War, Differences

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• I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.

  Roger Sherman

  Believe, Taken, Punishment

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• That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

  Marie Dressler

  Unfortunate Things, Unfortunate

  "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.

  Dennis Hull

  Winning, Cups, Said

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• I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

  Didier Drogba

  Thinking, Winning, Two

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• The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

  Arthur Miller

  Christian, Home, Land

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

  Candace Cameron

  Husband, Fall, Personality

  Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Davis (2015). “Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Law, Age

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Father, Son, Church

  Jürgen Moltmann (1977). “The church in the power of the spirit: a contribution of Messianic Ecclesiology”

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• .. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

  David Hume

  Feelings, Vices, Principles

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2006). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Judgement, Saint

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• If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

  Wilfrid Noyce

  Ocean, Adventure, Men

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• The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Mean, Responsibility

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