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Absolutes Quotes - Page 6

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

Ken Livingstone
Hollywood, Garbage, Absolutes

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

Justina Chen
Absolutes, Permanent

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

John Ralston Saul
Exception, Absolutes, Statements
John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

John Ralston Saul
Ideas, Needs, Absolutes
John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

Jill Abramson
Said, Absolute Truth, Absolutes
"On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t". www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2011.

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Ideas, Salvation, Absolutes

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Herbert Marcuse
Choices, Criteria, Absolutes
Herbert Marcuse (2013). “Towards a Critical Theory of Society: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.52, Routledge

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

Henry David Thoreau
Finite, Absolutes, Relative
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

Harlan Coben
Writing, Kate, Absolutes

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

Gore Vidal
Abandonment, Attainment, Absolutes
Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Uniformity, Absolutes, Variety

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

George Eliot
Protest, Conclusion, Absolutes
George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Frank Herbert
Predictions, Absolutes, Completion
Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Edmund Wilson
Hollywood, Absolutes
Edmund Wilson (1977). “Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972”

Women should have absolute access to capital.

Donald Trump
Should Have, Should, Absolutes
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Weakness, Tyranny, Absolutes

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

Daniel Delgado
Half, States, Absolutes

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

D. H. Lawrence
Literature, Strange, Absolutes
D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.151, Jester House Publishing

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

D. H. Lawrence
Absolutes
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

Clay Shirky
Collaboration, Absolutes

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Blaise Pascal
Movement, Absolutes

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