Final Words Quotes

• You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Dance, Kings

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• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Death, Book

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 3, ch. 15 (1859)

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• The final word is love.

  Dorothy Day

  Finals

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Laughter, Fun

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• Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Life, Teaching, Reflection

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• The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Father, Son, Church

  Jürgen Moltmann (1977). “The church in the power of the spirit: a contribution of Messianic Ecclesiology”

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• It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

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• It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

  Bob Lutz

  Running, Philosophy, Passion

  Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin

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• Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Art, People, Literature

  "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.

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• We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

  William O. Douglas

  Annoyed, Challenges, Finals

  "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.

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• God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

  Max Lucado

  Grace, Finals

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2013

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• What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, People, Finals

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• People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, Fcc, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• A final word on self-criticism: Do not beat up on yourself. Even if you think you know your flaws, there is no need to advertise them. Most people won't have noticed.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Thinking, Self, People

  Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

  William Weld

  Giving, Finals, Evening

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• Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

  Freeman Dyson

  Humanity, Finals, Looks

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• I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.

  John Carpenter

  Finals, Casting, Involved

  Source: collider.com

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• If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mind, Doe, Finals

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Responsibility, Epidemics

  "The Hoover Policies". Book by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur N. Hyde, 1937.

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• If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, America

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• Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

  Wim Wenders

  Wise, Pride, Cutting

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• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Doors, Presidential, Desire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.533, Best Books on

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