Conclusion Quotes - Page 21

• The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dog, Feuds, Witness

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Pain, Profound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.553, Modern Library

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Cutting, Long Ago

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

  Paul Neilan

  Long, Drunk, Half

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• It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

  Paul Auster

  Jumping, Trouble, Happens

  Paul Auster (2014). “Moon Palace”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• I protest against any absolute conclusion.

  George Eliot

  Protest, Absolutes

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

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• [..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Hate, People, Mind

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• Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Painting, Interaction

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.221, Penguin

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• He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.

  Julia Quinn

  Brain, Would Be, Strange

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• Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

  Paul Brunton

  Yield, Ego, Twists

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Important, Realizing

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• I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2012

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• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  God, Reading, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2090, Delphi Classics

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• I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Journey, Men

  "Fictional character: Red". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Principles, Western Culture

  "Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians". Book by Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, January 20, 2009.

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• How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Forever, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.346, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

  John Green

  Morning, Love Is, Loving Someone

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• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

  Michael Behe

  Book, Hard Work, Intelligent

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Path, Vans

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.

  Kim Harrison

  Jumping, Frogs, Said

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• Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Relationship, Hurt

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• Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Integrity, Judging, Childhood

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

  David Hume

  Passion, Heart, Profound

  David Hume (1772). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An. inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.5

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• The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.

  Sebastian Barry

  Summer, Thinking, Years

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