Ultimate Quotes - Page 27

• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  R. C. Sproul

  Love, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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• My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

  Robert Fulghum

  Moving, Dancing, Finals

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.26, Ivy Books

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• The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

  William Glasser

  Empowering, Use Of Power, Use

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• If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

  Eisaku Sato

  Objectivity, Ordinary, Daily Life

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• But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Miracle

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• Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

  James L. Buckley

  Running, Temptation, Soul

  James L Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.90, Encounter Books

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• Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

  Brandon Bays

  Beauty, Prayer, Essentials

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

  Frank Smythe

  Travel, Nature, Yellow

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• He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

  Angela Carter

  Revenge, Thinking, Language

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Worry, World

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Greek, Trying, Experience

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• The ultimate act of power is surrender.

  Krishna Das

  Surrender

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2015

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• Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason.

  Robert Wright

  Military, Knowing, Government

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• To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mystery

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• The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Laughter, Facts, Intimate

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• Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Loss, Journey

  M. Scott Peck (2003). “The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, Touchstone

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• Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Men, Measure Of A Man, Conscience

  G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It’s the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central and they’ve been good to me.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Hbo, People

  "Daniel Tosh’s jokes sneak up on you while you’re already laughing". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. February 18, 2009.

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• The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its final solution nor even whether a final objective answer can be expected at all. "Mathematizing" may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalization.

  Hermann Weyl

  Men, Discovery, Decision

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Fear, Loneliness, Healing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1738, Delphi Classics

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• So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

  Laura Kipnis

  Love Is, Vocabulary, Order

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• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  Laura Mvula

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

  Dave Hunt

  Purpose, Sin, Christ

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• In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Moving, Sacred, Way

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