Acme Quotes

#1. The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.

Isaac Asimov

#2. When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#3. To completely analyse what we do when we read would almost be the acme of the psychologist's achievements, for it would be to describe very many of the most intricate workings of the human mind

Margaret J. Snowling

#4. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

#5. There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know.

Bob Mayer

#6. Love as acme of living and dying.

Aporva Kala

#7. To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

Sun Tzu

#8. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

#9. The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

James Allen

#10. Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Naguib Mahfouz

#11. Far from being the acme of religion - let alone its telic blossoming - God is the principle of its suppression. The unity of theos is the tombstone of sacred zero, the crumbling granitic foundation of secular destitution.

Nick Land

#12. Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Steve Rushin

#13. This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

Edward Thorndike

#14. To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Sun Tzu

#15. The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.

Kenneth Ring

#16. Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in recovery or death.

Henry E. Sigerist

#17. The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

#19. It is the acme of life to understand life.

George Santayana

#20. Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Sun Tzu

#21. Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed to one in detail by the woman whom one adores is without doubt the acme of suffering.

Stendhal

#23. The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.

Winston Graham

#24. Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

Will Smith

#25. As for the coyote, he was nothing like his cartoon icon. He was sleek, fast, healthy and apparently without an anvil or Acme product of any kind.

Doug Fine

#26. The acme of faith is ... immersion of the mind in God.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

#27. The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

John Marshall

#28. In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

Roland Barthes

#29. It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Terry Pratchett

#30. As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Charles M. Schwab

#31. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!

Sun Tzu

#32. I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be.

Walt Whitman

#33. Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What ... happened?"
Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

Dan Brown

#34. I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.

Henry Van De Velde