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Quotes About Ultimate

All fear is ultimately fear of no-self. "And what is enlightenment," I ask Sarah, "but a swan dive into the abyss of no-self?
~ Jed McKenna
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~ JEFF ABBOTT
The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.
~ Elizabeth George
This was the crippling irony at the heart of the Confederate debates over the prospect of peace: the moments when Confederate military victories gave the South the greatest potential bargaining power were the very moments when Davis and the Confederate public were surest of their ultimate victory and therefore most unwilling to negotiate.
~ Elizabeth R. Varon
For he did not realize that fear is simply suppressed desire, vivid signs of life, and that desire is the ultimate causative agent everywhere and always.
~ Algernon Blackwood
For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Medusa… the sight of her face turned people into stone. [Here she is] perhaps a symbol of the ultimate sin, despair, which would petrify Dante and so trap him in Hell for ever.
~ Allen Mandelbaum
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
~ Alvin Adams
An EMP attack on America would send us back to the horse and buggy era - without the horse and buggy. If you're a terrorist, this is your ultimate goal, your ultimate asymmetric weapon.
~ Trent Franks
Beto is banking on his sacharrine positivity as the ultimate antidote to President Trump's honest saltiness.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
I'm not ruling out the possibilities of being an 'Ultimate Fighter' coach.
~ Diego Sanchez
Witnessing the crowd come to their feet mid-match, that's the ultimate sign of respect.
~ Tessa Blanchard
Living for Jesus was the ultimate "thrill," Templeton informed his audiences. He told young men and women that Christ was "the most exciting man who's ever lived ... the most extraordinary man who's ever lived,"63 and not just a man, but God Himself.
~ Richard J. Mouw
The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.
~ Richard North Patterson
It is all too common for companies to rush through this phase, curtailing the valuable learning of what the ultimate product or service might look like.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
In democratic America, supposedly, ultimate power rests in the voters, and the man for whom the majority of them cast their votes is the repository of that power. But Wagner knew better. The spectators may have thought he had a choice in dealing with Moses. He knew that he did not. Why, when Moses pushed the appointment blank across his desk, did the Mayor say not a word? Possibly because there was nothing to say. Power had spoken.
~ Robert A. Caro
Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility—we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life—and lose it, if need be—to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Gersony was to become the ultimate fieldworker: in continuous, tactile contact with the evidence. And he would let the evidence—rather than theories, of which he knew nothing—always drive his conclusions.
~ Robert D Kaplan
The revolt seemed to Nadia more a waste than ever, an unfocused spasm of rage, the ultimate cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.
~ Robert Neelly Bellah
To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.
~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
The purest definition of "religious" is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.
~ Darrell Calkins
If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt to sell you a share in the ultimate gated community?
~ Quentin R. Bufogle
In order to establish the true value of a function, one must take it to its limits. And it's clear that yesterday's ridiculous "dissolution into the universe," taken to its limits, is death. Because death is exactly that: the ultimate dissolution of my self into the universe. And hence, if "L" signifies love and "D" signifies death, then L=f(D) - that is, love is a function of death.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin