Absolute Quotes

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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.

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

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.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.