Absolute Quotes

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute. Myles Munroe
Life World Lost Sense Nothing Live Society Ours Dates Absolute Obsolescence Shelf Shelf Life Limited Permanence Real Any Real Sense Planned Disposable Largely
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love Death God Surrender Guidance Enter Ourselves Must Totally Absolute Since Him Return Makes Domination Us
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Rowan Williams
God Marriage Echoes Absolute Between Partners Because Female Faithfulness Covenant His Male Different Place Persons Speaks Radically Unique Chosen
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley
Great Knowledge Natural Every Rejection Absolute Advance Involved Authority
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. Woodrow Wilson
Life You Every Think Crisis Some Restraint Absolute Misgiving Aloud Without Friend Salvation Whom Sympathetic
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. Alberto Moravia
Future Generation Obligation Our Resources Laws Rather Absolute Proposition Ideals Becomes Pass Than Owner Custodian Turn Customs Should Inheritance Each Each Generation Based
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. Aldo Leopold
Justice People Liberty Achieve Important Harmony Strive More Shall Absolute Higher Never Important Thing Than Any Land Aspirations Thing
You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool. Alex Sharp
Good You Fool Good Job Job Looking Danger Risk Absolute Like Safe Play Spectacular
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. Bernard Barton
Man Age Sex Beneath Rank Above Absolute Absolute Necessity Vastly Without Condition Modesty Necessity Below
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth. Bill Keller
Freedom Myth Think Libel Press Kind Some Laws Absolute Absolute Freedom Instance Idea Operate Against
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then. Cameron Mackintosh
Me First Lost Living Think Worst Worst Thing Would Having Absolute Could Had Instead Opened Over Know Been Years Hit Scrape Done Happened Which Then Show Fortune Thing
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. Charles de Gaulle
World Power Absolute Sword Axis
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir. Chris Bohjalian
Me Important Resonance Though Memoir Voice Absolute Emotional Clearly Most Narrator Fiction Believable
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. Dave Barry
Seven Seem Absolute Had He Between Like Another Tragic Person May Scream Depressing Even Four
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce. David Ricardo
Class Judge Profit Correctly Rate Absolute Obtain Obtained Quantity Rent Wages Labour Either Produce Required
I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together. Donna Shalala
Together Admit Absolute February Had No-One Put Know Pieces Doing Board January
I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened. Felix Dennis
Day You Every Day Mind Fools Understanding Past Own Every Think Our Way Tricks Minute About Something Absolute Never Talking Least Just Suspicious Happen Happened Your Plays
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche
Absolute Facts Truths Eternal
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher
Religion Feeling Consists Absolute Essence Dependence
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
God Power Master Assuming Relation Approve Guilty System Absolute Absolute Power Towards His Cannot Place Which Servitude
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. Gilbert Murray
Happiness Life Property Man World Liberty Complicated Seen Mercy Few Absolute Throughout Never He Involved Quarrels Heard Common Common Man Persons Whom
With all my clients I work with, they all have their absolute specialness about them. Giles Deacon
Work About Absolute Clients Them
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass
Work Age Conflict Will Busy Melancholy Absolute Dawn Soon Come Principle Without Perpetually Leisure Then Busyness Utopia Utopian Consciousness Coincide
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. Ida B. Wells
Vote Satisfied Negroes Menace Spirit Alleged Having Absolute Suppression Been Mob Should Avoided Suffrage Universal Universal Suffrage
It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change. Isaac Newton
Time Change Progress Liable Absolute Retarded True Accelerate Motion Motions Accurately May Whereby Measured Thing
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth Mind Own Unknown See Absolute Clearly Know Surely Very Quietness Cannot Incapacity
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