Finals Quotes - Page 9

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I’ve done with Almodóvar.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.