Absolute Quotes
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things. (Quote by - Kevin Pietersen)
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, Corrected I believe to One does feel. (Quote by - Ronald Knox)
Everything you've learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. (Quote by - Sir Anthony Eden)
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)
The goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage. (Quote by - R K Elliott)
What he's done is shameless. He's an absolute plonker. (Quote by - Ricky Hatton)
Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. (Quote by - Norman Bradburn)
Gentlemen of die Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. (Quote by - Senator George Graham Vest)
A few weeks will probably determine our fate. Perfect freedom, or Absolute Slavery. To some of us freedom or a halter. (Quote by - Abraham Clark)
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell)
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Solitaire is the only thing in life that demands absolute honesty. (Quote by - Hugh Wheeler)
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness. (Quote by - Eda LeShan)
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
He was an absolute hero from childhood. (Quote by - Rik Mayall)
It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job. (Quote by - Stuart Pearce)
Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. (Quote by - Joseph Goebbels)
It has been observed the absolute idiot plays the steadiest. (Quote by - Walter Simpson)
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted. (Quote by - David Cameron)
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him, even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. (Quote by - Colette)
The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. (Quote by - Galbraith)
It's an absolute scandal that there is no proper financial regulation system within football. (Quote by - Graham Kelly)
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. (Quote by - John Lehman)
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. (Quote by - Thomas Morton)
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
The feeling in the dressing room after Saturday's defeat to Wales was one of absolute shock. We were all stunned by what had happened. (Quote by - Andy Gomarsall)
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations. (Quote by - Thomas A Kempis)
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. (Quote by - Cicero)
The second half was easy to sum up - an absolute shambles. Communication, organisation and man-marking was nil. (Quote by - Alan Hansen)
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Truth is absolute, no matter what your truth says it is. (Quote by - Travis J Hedrick)
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)
I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it. (Quote by - Steffi Graf)
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?(Quote by - Edwina Currie)
Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing or working for political parties, you say, 'What company am I in?'. (Quote by - Michael Winner)
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. (Quote by - Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)
Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything. (Quote by - Jerry Delia Femina)
Hansel and Gretel and Dizzy's double hundred - they're one and the same. An absolute fairytale. (Quote by - Jason Gillespie)
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God. (Quote by - George Daacon)
