Absolute Quotes

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.