I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," you don't expect him to say, "So, who hasn't?
- Marc Acito
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
- Bryan Adams
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
- Douglas Adams
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
- Ronald Reagan
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
- Ronald Reagan
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
- Mortimer Adler
I rolled my eyes."Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
- Stewart Alsop
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
- B R Ambedkar
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
- Alejandro Amenabar
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
- John Amery
That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free.
- Heather Anastasiu
Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.
- Peter Andre
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the inermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
- Hermann Hesse
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
- Hannah Arendt
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
- Plato
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Aristotle
What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description...we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.
- Aristotle
I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.
- Nicole Richie
Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
- William Shatner
The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.
- Sean Astin
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
- Michael Aston
Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.
- Margaret Atwood
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
- Irving Babbitt
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
- J G Ballard
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.
- J G Ballard
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.
- J G Ballard
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
- Stefan Banach
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
- Lester Bangs
If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
- Banksy
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
- Christine Baranski
If people could climb higher in the social hierarchy in proportion to their incompetence, I guarantee the world would not go round the way it does. But that's not even the problem. What his sentence means isn't that incompetent people have found their place in the sun, but that nothing is harder or more unfair than human reality: humans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.
- Muriel Barbery
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel A Barker
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
- Jim Barksdale
Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.
- T A Barron
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
- Dave Barry
Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
- Peter Bart
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
- Joe Barton
Let us roam then, you and I,
When the evening is splayed out across the sky
Paths that follow like a nagging accusation
Of a minor violation
To lead you to the ultimate reproof...
Oh, do not say, 'Bad kitty!'
Let us go and prowl the city.
In the rooms the cats run to and fro
Auditioning for a Broadway show.
(From The Love Song of J. Morris Housecat)
- Henry N Beard
So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?
- Hilari Bell
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
- Bo Bennett
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
- Xander Berkeley
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent.......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.
- Isaiah Berlin
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
- Marion Berry
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
- Joe Biden
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
- Keith Richards
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
- Bill Blass
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
- John Boehner
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
- Edward Bond
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
- Samuel Johnson
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
- Ian Botham
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
- Jack Bowman
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
- Allen Boyd
They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.
- Robert A Brady
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
- Marlon Brando
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality...
We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?
- Brandon Sanderson
But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.
- Madeleine L Engle
Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
- Libba Bray
It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.
- Libba Bray
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
- William J Brennan Jr
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
- Breyten Breytenbach
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
- Marshall Mcluhan
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.
- Charles Bronson
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
- Charles Bronson
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Dalai Lama
Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind
- Dalai Lama
The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness
- Dalai Lama
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
- Alton Brown
But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. Every code is breakable - the Bergofsky Principle! She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.
- Dan Brown
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time."
Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail."
"I was referring to the Bible."
Faukman cringed. "I knew that.
- Dan Brown
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
- James L Buckley
Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
- Chuck Palahniuk
We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.
- Jim Bunning
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
- Abigail Van Buren
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
- William S Burroughs
... She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
- Candace Bushnell
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
- Nolan Bushnell
Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
- Jim Butcher
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
- Steve Buyer
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.
- Herman Cain
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.
- Herman Cain
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
- Italo Calvino
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
- Joseph Campbell
The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience
- Joseph Campbell
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
...Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
- Jonathan Lethem
That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
- Gary Carter
Abortion is the ultimate violence.
- Robert Casey
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.
- Michael Chabon
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
- Oswald Chambers
Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.
- Jay Chiat
Not the power to conquer others
But the power to become one with others
is the ultimate power.
- Sri Chinmoy
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
- Nadine Gordimer
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
- Tom Clancy
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.
- David Levithan
- I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD.
- Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?
- Terry Pratchett
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren't even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman's conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
- Robert A Heinlein
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
- Michael Connelly
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
- Sean Connery
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
- Mason Cooley
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
- Alice Cooper
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
- John Corigliano
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
- Howard Cosell
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them
- Jim Rohn
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
- David Crane
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
- Robert Crippen
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.
Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Avis Lang (2012-02-20). Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Kindle Locations 1880-1882). Norton. Kindle Edition.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
- Stanley Crouch
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
- Ice Cube
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
- Lloyd Norton Cutler
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.
- Richard Dawkins
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One's own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.
- Lama Surya Das
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
- Sammy Davis Jr
You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.
- Eric Davis
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
- Dorothy Day
F#ck, she was perfect. Making love to her wasn't just heaven. It was the single most amazing experience in his thirty years of life. She may have been made for him, but he was made for this moment. For the ultimate instant when he and Jenna merged into one.
- Jess Dee
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
- Don Delillo
He always had books. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- John Green
In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.
- John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back
- John Green
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
- Charlie Dent
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
- Johnny Depp
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
- Bree Despain
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.
- Graham Greene
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
- Helene Deutsch
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90
- Sheri L Dew
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
- Michael Diamond
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
- Leonardo Dicaprio
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
- Philip K Dick
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
- Philip K Dick
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
- Philip K Dick
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.
- Philip K Dick
Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.
- Doug Dillon
She could remember feeling that disorienting first rush of love, as bright and light as if no one else had ever felt it, as if you were looking down into the ultimate pool of emotional revelation. She also remembered how stupid it made you.
- Lucy Dillon
Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.
- Franz Kafka
Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation and insignificance!" I went on raving. "Devil knows, maybe there is in the knout, too, when the knout comes down on your back and tears your flesh to pieces...But maybe I want to try other pleasures as well.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment
- Hubert L Dreyfus
He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death.
- Milan Kundera
Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
- George Duke
I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.
- Kevin Durant
In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated.
- Henry Miller
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.
- Dennis Eckersley
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Love was the ultimate act of courage, he understood now. Because you had to go into it knowing it could be snatched away by forces beyond your control. and if that happened, you'd be a shell of a person, a shadow of yourself, and nothing would be any good again.
- Louisa Edwards
I hope he approves of my carefully chosen Geekstuff.com outfit: the Ultimate Long-Safari-Skirt. Color: Puce. Sale price: $42.95. I've combined it with the Peter Pan Office Shirt, color: bright-white. Price $34.00. An item that has never been marked up or down for the past two years. A point I can't wait to bring up during my interview.
- Anne Eliot
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
- Jim Elliot
Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
- Garth Ennis
People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.
- Jessica Ennis
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
- Siobhan Fahey
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
- Eliza Farnham
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
- Jasper Fforde
Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband.
- Linda Fiorentino
Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
- Victor Hugo
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
- Tom Flores
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
- Gillian Flynn
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
- Richard Foreman
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
- Matthew Fox
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
- Felix Frankfurter
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor E Frankl
The truth-that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
- Viktor E Frankl
The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
- Jonathan Franzen
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
- Erich Fromm
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
- Masanobu Fukuoka
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
- Masanobu Fukuoka
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R Buckminster Fuller
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
- Neil Gaiman
Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.
- Neil Gaiman
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
- Kirsty Gallacher
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
- Maggie Gallagher
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
- Richard Le Gallienne
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. ... The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
- Eckhart Tolle
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
- John W Gardner
Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
- Ina Garten
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
- Ina Garten
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles De Gaulle
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
- Boy George
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Thomas Hardy
My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.
- Abbi Glines
I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)
- Ellen Hopkins
I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.
- Tracey Gold
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
- Emma Goldman
The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
- Morris Hite
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.
- Terry Goodkind
The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.
- Heather Graham
Being God would be the ultimate.
- Macy Gray
- Marc Acito
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
- Bryan Adams
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
- Douglas Adams
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
- Ronald Reagan
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
- Ronald Reagan
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
- Mortimer Adler
I rolled my eyes."Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
- Stewart Alsop
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
- B R Ambedkar
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
- Alejandro Amenabar
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
- John Amery
That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free.
- Heather Anastasiu
Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.
- Peter Andre
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the inermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
- Hermann Hesse
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
- Hannah Arendt
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
- Plato
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Aristotle
What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description...we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.
- Aristotle
I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.
- Nicole Richie
Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
- William Shatner
The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.
- Sean Astin
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
- Michael Aston
Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.
- Margaret Atwood
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
- Irving Babbitt
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
- J G Ballard
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.
- J G Ballard
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.
- J G Ballard
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
- Stefan Banach
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
- Lester Bangs
If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
- Banksy
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
- Christine Baranski
If people could climb higher in the social hierarchy in proportion to their incompetence, I guarantee the world would not go round the way it does. But that's not even the problem. What his sentence means isn't that incompetent people have found their place in the sun, but that nothing is harder or more unfair than human reality: humans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.
- Muriel Barbery
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
- Joel A Barker
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
- Jim Barksdale
Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.
- T A Barron
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
- Dave Barry
Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
- Peter Bart
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
- Joe Barton
Let us roam then, you and I,
When the evening is splayed out across the sky
Paths that follow like a nagging accusation
Of a minor violation
To lead you to the ultimate reproof...
Oh, do not say, 'Bad kitty!'
Let us go and prowl the city.
In the rooms the cats run to and fro
Auditioning for a Broadway show.
(From The Love Song of J. Morris Housecat)
- Henry N Beard
So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?
- Hilari Bell
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
- Bo Bennett
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
- Xander Berkeley
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent.......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.
- Isaiah Berlin
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
- Marion Berry
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
- Joe Biden
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
- Keith Richards
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
- Bill Blass
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
- John Boehner
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
- Edward Bond
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
- Samuel Johnson
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
- Ian Botham
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
- Jack Bowman
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
- Allen Boyd
They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.
- Robert A Brady
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
- Marlon Brando
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality...
We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?
- Brandon Sanderson
But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.
- Madeleine L Engle
Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
- Libba Bray
It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.
- Libba Bray
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
- William J Brennan Jr
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
- Breyten Breytenbach
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
- Marshall Mcluhan
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.
- Charles Bronson
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
- Charles Bronson
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Dalai Lama
Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind
- Dalai Lama
The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness
- Dalai Lama
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
- Alton Brown
But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. Every code is breakable - the Bergofsky Principle! She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.
- Dan Brown
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time."
Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail."
"I was referring to the Bible."
Faukman cringed. "I knew that.
- Dan Brown
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
- James L Buckley
Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
- Chuck Palahniuk
We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.
- Jim Bunning
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
- Abigail Van Buren
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
- William S Burroughs
... She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
- Candace Bushnell
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
- Nolan Bushnell
Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
- Jim Butcher
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
- Steve Buyer
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.
- Herman Cain
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.
- Herman Cain
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
- Italo Calvino
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
- Joseph Campbell
The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience
- Joseph Campbell
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
...Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
- Jonathan Lethem
That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
- Gary Carter
Abortion is the ultimate violence.
- Robert Casey
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.
- Michael Chabon
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
- Oswald Chambers
Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.
- Jay Chiat
Not the power to conquer others
But the power to become one with others
is the ultimate power.
- Sri Chinmoy
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
- Nadine Gordimer
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
- Tom Clancy
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.
- David Levithan
- I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD.
- Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?
- Terry Pratchett
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren't even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman's conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
- Robert A Heinlein
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
- Michael Connelly
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
- Sean Connery
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
- Mason Cooley
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
- Alice Cooper
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
- John Corigliano
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
- Howard Cosell
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them
- Jim Rohn
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
- David Crane
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
- Robert Crippen
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.
Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Avis Lang (2012-02-20). Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Kindle Locations 1880-1882). Norton. Kindle Edition.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
- Stanley Crouch
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
- Ice Cube
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
- Lloyd Norton Cutler
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.
- Richard Dawkins
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One's own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.
- Lama Surya Das
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
- Sammy Davis Jr
You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.
- Eric Davis
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
- Dorothy Day
F#ck, she was perfect. Making love to her wasn't just heaven. It was the single most amazing experience in his thirty years of life. She may have been made for him, but he was made for this moment. For the ultimate instant when he and Jenna merged into one.
- Jess Dee
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
- Don Delillo
He always had books. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- John Green
In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.
- John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back
- John Green
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
- Charlie Dent
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
- Johnny Depp
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
- Bree Despain
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.
- Graham Greene
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
- Helene Deutsch
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90
- Sheri L Dew
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
- Michael Diamond
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
- Leonardo Dicaprio
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
- Philip K Dick
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
- Philip K Dick
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
- Philip K Dick
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.
- Philip K Dick
Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.
- Doug Dillon
She could remember feeling that disorienting first rush of love, as bright and light as if no one else had ever felt it, as if you were looking down into the ultimate pool of emotional revelation. She also remembered how stupid it made you.
- Lucy Dillon
Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.
- Franz Kafka
Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation and insignificance!" I went on raving. "Devil knows, maybe there is in the knout, too, when the knout comes down on your back and tears your flesh to pieces...But maybe I want to try other pleasures as well.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment
- Hubert L Dreyfus
He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death.
- Milan Kundera
Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
- George Duke
I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.
- Kevin Durant
In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated.
- Henry Miller
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.
- Dennis Eckersley
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Love was the ultimate act of courage, he understood now. Because you had to go into it knowing it could be snatched away by forces beyond your control. and if that happened, you'd be a shell of a person, a shadow of yourself, and nothing would be any good again.
- Louisa Edwards
I hope he approves of my carefully chosen Geekstuff.com outfit: the Ultimate Long-Safari-Skirt. Color: Puce. Sale price: $42.95. I've combined it with the Peter Pan Office Shirt, color: bright-white. Price $34.00. An item that has never been marked up or down for the past two years. A point I can't wait to bring up during my interview.
- Anne Eliot
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
- Jim Elliot
Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
- Garth Ennis
People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.
- Jessica Ennis
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
- Siobhan Fahey
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
- Eliza Farnham
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
- Jasper Fforde
Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband.
- Linda Fiorentino
Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
- Victor Hugo
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
- Tom Flores
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
- Gillian Flynn
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
- Richard Foreman
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
- Matthew Fox
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
- Felix Frankfurter
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor E Frankl
The truth-that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
- Viktor E Frankl
The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
- Jonathan Franzen
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
- Erich Fromm
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
- Masanobu Fukuoka
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
- Masanobu Fukuoka
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R Buckminster Fuller
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
- Neil Gaiman
Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.
- Neil Gaiman
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
- Kirsty Gallacher
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
- Maggie Gallagher
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
- Richard Le Gallienne
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. ... The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
- Eckhart Tolle
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
- John W Gardner
Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
- Ina Garten
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
- Ina Garten
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles De Gaulle
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
- Boy George
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Thomas Hardy
My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.
- Abbi Glines
I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)
- Ellen Hopkins
I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.
- Tracey Gold
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
- Emma Goldman
The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
- Morris Hite
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.
- Terry Goodkind
The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.
- Heather Graham
Being God would be the ultimate.
- Macy Gray
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