Finite Quotes

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last. Larry Brilliant
Life Finite Point Self Identifying Transcend Things Last
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite. Louise Leakey
Time Our Distant Earth Several Our Time Record Finite Contemplate Like Also Force Fairly Does Cousins Place Us Planet Planet Earth Inhabited Who Fossil Species Extinct Recently
The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world. Mark Ruffalo
Nature Grace World Smart Will Face Our Earth Destiny Ourselves Out Tell Run Willingness Some About Laws Finite Point Take Renewable Any Going Substance Then Us Amount
Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling. Mark Waters
Time You Joy School Feeling Awareness High High School About Pot Something Finite Emotion Feel Like Particularly Because Heartbreak Intensely Any Being Movies Realize Boiling
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. Max Weber
Culture World Significance Segment Finite Infinity Human Human Beings Process Which Meaning Meaningless Beings
Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite. Michael Nesmith
You Wealth Only Finite Point Could Counted Terms Make Because How Were Dollars End Up Any Difference Forth Certain Certain Point Many Start
I've had a great time coaching teams in these various T20 tournaments but that involvement obviously only lasts for a finite period. I just felt I was too young to be doing what I was doing. Mickey Arthur
Time Great Young Too Lasts Only Various Finite Had Tournaments Involvement Great Time Period Obviously Felt Doing Just Coaching Teams
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. Muhammad Iqbal
Time Pure Nothing Universe Kind Collection Mutually Mutually Exclusive Finite Exclusive Island Does Itself Situated Regarded Which Moments Series Things Presents
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since. Naveen Jain
Better Settled Our Resources Once Our Lives More Finite Environment Since Also Make Comfortable Traded Been Existences Quest Began Precious Communities Sucking Ever Lives Humans
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend. Orson F. Whitney
Best Father Power Our Minds Charitable Comprehend More Finite Merciful Gospel Narrow His Than Infinitely Heavenly Heavenly Father Mightier Far Even Servants Everlasting Save
Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light. Paul Davies
Age Memory Light Power Speed Too Cosmic Finite Computer Computers Performance Limited Man-Made Processing
People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. Paul Watson
People Law Beginning Live Resources Ecology Finite Go Accordance Going Realize Need Extinct
I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime. Peter Zumthor
Work Three Carefully Project Projects Finite Lifetime Put Between Look How Years Depending Size Want Anywhere Many Therefore
There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming. Reed Hastings
Will Market Finite Over Years Next Streaming Growth
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves. Richard Lamm
You World Believe Living Awesome Some Economic Finite Economic Growth Geometric Infinite Curves Shoulders Population Growth
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is. Roxane Gay
Compassion Care Criticism Assumption Everyone Everything Critics Finite Simply Because Odd Cultural Commenting
Time is a finite resource. Rumaan Alam
Time Resource Finite
Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount. Sean Booth
You Digital Wave Sections Able More Finite Never Deal Equation Sound Reducing Domain Just Information Much Working Using Actual Amount Things
Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table. Seth Shostak
Closed Universe Our Say Latter Possibility Table See Finite Shape Beyond Still Exist Infinite Decide Which Galaxies Even
I don't think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it's like a finite series. But doing that as a daily soap is not easy. Shaheer Sheikh
Love Daily Power Think Would Easy More Finite Mythological Like Doing Soap Series Shows
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple. Sol LeWitt
Logical Simple Complete Possible Systems Case Variations Finite Color Most Cube Line Were Square Forms Them Produce Used Using Elements Kept
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever. Steven Moffat
Think Finite Feel Go Forever Want Stories
The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. T. E. Hulme
Man Possibilities Classical Finite Well Call Him Very Fixed Romantic Regards Which View Full Reservoir Creature
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle
Man Finite He Him Because His Cunning Greatness Infinite Quite Cannot Which Unhappiness Bury
Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook. Tom Price
Time You Promises Hook Critical Something Finite Know Period Because Does Leaves Been Expand Expansion Any Anybody Then Asked Washington Medicaid
Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite. Tony Evans
Time Prayer Communication Earth Finite Between Link God-Given Infinite Heaven Eternity
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