Absoluteness Quotes

#1. When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

Alexander Pope

#2. I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

George MacDonald

#3. It was her nature...her weakness, that for her loving another human being must always have this intensity...this absoluteness.

Penny Jordan

#4. Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

Felix Alba-Juez

#5. The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Mason Cooley

#6. There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

Libba Bray

#7. The notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment

Tom Robbins

#8. It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out of nothingness but by means of it.

Christian Wiman

#9. It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

David Gilmour

#10. The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#11. There is no denying I'm once again complete in her presence. This is my place. I belong to her and my place is by her side. And the absoluteness of that statement is profound, and it begs to rewrite my life.

Elizabeth Finn

#12. If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Newton Lee

#13. The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

Pauline Neville-Jones

#14. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them

Paulo Coelho

#15. My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Stephen Greenblatt

#16. If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance.

Max Lucado

#17. We've determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.

Patricia Briggs

#18. People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

Michael Shermer

#19. Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

Eva Longoria

#20. You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Larry Page

#21. We are justified by faith and saved by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

Billie Joe Armstrong