Ultimate Quotes - Page 28

• Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Hey, Excuse

  "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Responsibility, Difficult Choices

  "Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images" by Hannah Storm, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.

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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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• I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey
  number retired was the ultimate compliment.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Blessed, Numbers

  Interview with Art Eddy, manjr.com. May 20, 2013.

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

  Timothy Keller

  Believe

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• The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Weakness, Dogma

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press

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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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• 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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• But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ideas, Goal, Shapes

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Being Free

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Numbers, Want, Belief

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• Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!

  Sheri Fink

  Self, Secret, Life Happiness

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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 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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• In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Successful, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying.

  Robert Musil

  Art, Mean, Sides

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• The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they've really just about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening. God is showing through.

  John Updike

  Details, Lasts, Physicist

  "Roger's Version". Book by John Updike, 1986.

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• My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

  Luis von Ahn

  Drinking, Sleep, Goal

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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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• 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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• Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!

  Chris Jericho

  Queens, Hypocrite, Wwe

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• The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

  Richard Trumka

  Wall, Economic Inequality, Goal

  "Unions mobilize, put Dems on notice - Gov. Blunt's profile - Tiahrt hawks Hawker - The frat PAC - AT&T/T-Mobile action" by Chris Frates, www.politico.com. May 20, 2011.

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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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• Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Standards, Standards Of Beauty

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