Finals Quotes - Page 9

• Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.

  Che Guevara

  Sacrifice, Effort, Battle

  Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press

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• No failure is final unless you ratify it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  No Failure

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• Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Evil, Would Be, Path

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• My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Religious, Memories

  "For Afghanistan With Love". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

  Dave Barry

  Aquariums, People, Ascent

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.70, Crown Archetype

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• So after those Games, I continued to compete that season and the year after that. I really had the goal of being intentional. I didn't want to do big tricks because it was an X Games final or an Olympics final. I wanted to call my own shots. I started to do that and I started to have more fun than I ever knew I could have.

  Kelly Clark

  Fun, Years, Games

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I flew over to Birmingham and did half a dozen scenes or so as a pastor in the film. I had a great time. I look forward to seeing the final version. I also am good friends with the Erwin Brothers who are co-directing and producing the film with Kevin. They also helped with Courageous. It's kind of a small little family in this arena and we love helping each other out.

  Alex Kendrick

  Brother, Good Friend, Looks

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

  Henry M. Morris

  Facts, Evolution, Deny

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• The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

  Frederic Chopin

  Art, Numbers, Simplicity

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• In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Discovery, Purpose

  Introduction to "Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God", translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, 1944.

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• I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

  Colin Fletcher

  Passion, Addiction, Madness

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.15, Knopf

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• There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, World, Ruins

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.4, London : Chapman and Hall

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• One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on each other. The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Character, Heart, Men

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• Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

  R. C. Sproul

  Perspective, Speak, Authority

  R. C. Sproul (2009). “Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
  The final step you must take alone.
  No wisdom is better than this when known:
  That every hard thing is done alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Done, Steps, Known

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• Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

  Wim Wenders

  Cutting, Worry

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• Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Harbors

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

  Franz Kline

  Tests, Emotion, Painting

  "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, p. 106, 1961.

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• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Lasts, Six

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Self Confidence, Reality

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• It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Home, Fate

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• Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Past, Infinite Time, Space

  Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism "The Utility of Religion" (1874)

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• I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

  Richard G. Scott

  Destiny, Choices, Our Actions

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• In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fall, Civilization, Progress

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