Absolutes Quotes - Page 21

• The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

  Isaac Asimov

  Law, Errors, Variation

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Essence, Parent

  "Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature".

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• It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Safety, Guarantees, Function

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.64, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mind Love, Evil, Justice

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• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Discipline, Perspective, Horizon

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• There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

  Clive Barker

  Wonder Love, Faces, Originality

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• My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think I’ll be okay. (Kat) Yeah, you do have the history of absolute terror and cruelty in your veins. (Sin) Remember that if you ever come between me and my chocolate bar. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Reality, Fragility, Facts

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• It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Mind, Process

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• ...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned. It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together. This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.

  J.R. Ward

  Soul, Insane, Together

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• The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

  Gena Showalter

  Moon, Rays, Buffets

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Playing with Fire”, p.317, Harlequin

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• What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.

  Erich Segal

  Stones, Way, Faces

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Roots

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Hate, Love You, Eye

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• Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Fashion, Thinking

  "Chanel". Book by Jean Leymarie, 1987.

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• What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?

  Katherine Mansfield

  Feelings, Overcoming, Pieces

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD – The Ultimate Short Stories & Poetry Collection: 100+ Titles in One Volume (Literature Classics Series): Prelude, Bliss, At the Bay, The Garden Party, A Birthday, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses and many more”, p.7, e-artnow

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• You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Lying, War, Stories

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• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Fabulous, Existentialism

  "Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.

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• Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

  James Lee Burke

  Humility, Virtue

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• I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Love, Marriage, Loyalty

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• Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Money, Powerful

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• It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Loneliness, Eye

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.167, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Decision, Doe, Freedom To Choose

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• I protest against any absolute conclusion.

  George Eliot

  Protest, Conclusion

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.

  Steve Almond

  Crush, Song, Religious

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House

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