Ultimate Quotes - Page 18

• Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

  Logan Henderson

  Flying, Superpower

  "Exclusive Q&A: Big Time Rush". Interview with Gayatri Rajagopalan, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.

  Charlie Rowe

  Dream, Careers, Goal

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• At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

  Matisyahu

  Moving, Fall, Order

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• The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pigs, Feet, Morality

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• How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Believe

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• Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?

  Bella Andre

  Unrequited Love, Made, Unrequited

  Bella Andre (2014). “Let Me Be the One: The Sullivans: (Contemporary Romance)”, p.57, Oak Press, LLC

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• Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Perfection, People, Greed

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• CeNation. In Austin, TX, preparing to perfrom for members of our military. In that vein, I would like to let the Rough Riders Platoon know that even though they are going through a difficult time, with brave soliders making the ultimate sacrifice, to keep their heads up, hearts strong, and know that all of them are in my thoughts. Never Give Up.

  John Cena

  Strong, Giving Up, Military

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• My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

  Camille Paglia

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Government

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• You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.

  Bo Lozoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

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• The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Character, People, Secret

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

  Slavoj Žižek

  Creating, Space, Goal

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• It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

  David Mamet

  Views, Issues, Abortion

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.163, Penguin

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• Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Mean, Goal, Hierarchy

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• Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Advantage, Ends

  B. F. Skinner (2016). “The Technology of Teaching”, p.144, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans

  Evan Tanner

  Kindness, Mma, Humans

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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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• The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

  Tony Hsieh

  Definitions, Definition Of Success, Okay

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Believe, Decency, I Believe

  Letter to Sidney Colvin, 23 August 1893, in Sidney Colvin (ed.) 'The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson' (1911) vol. 4, p. 211

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• The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

  Gilbert Adair

  Blessed, Feet, Giving

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• God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

  Timothy Keller

  Joy, Suffering, Depth

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• Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Light, Enemy, Dying

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

  Mason Cooley

  Beloved, Fetish

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