Final Verdict Quotes

#1. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Augustine's final verdict on the philosophers of Greece
and Rome was that, although they had made various mistakes, "nature itself has not permitted them to wander too far from the path of truth" in their judgments about the supreme good (De Civitate Dei 19.1).

Alasdair MacIntyre

#3. Different days pass verdict on different men, and only the last day a final verdict on all men, and consequently no day is to be trusted.

Anthony Doerr

#4. [I]n scientific matters it is always experience, and never authority without experience, that gives the final verdict, whether in favour or against.

Sigmund Freud

#5. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

John Galt

#6. It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: Close the window, it's too beautiful.

Albert Camus

#7. Open your heart to find your true path.

B.J.K. Brown

#8. Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. A man willing to sacrifice his life for you is more than worth admiring. He's worth loving.

Jessica R. Patch

#10. The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.

Jacob Aagaard

#11. Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn't matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn't count? Yeah, that's learned helplessness.

David McRaney

#12. To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

N. T. Wright

#13. If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

Richard Rohr

#15. I love and accept my self exactly the way I am

Chris Cade

#16. Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.

L. William Seidman

#17. I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

Jake Busey

#18. The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

A.S. Byatt

#19. It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

Pierre Trudeau

#20. [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

J.I. Packer

#21. Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

John Cheever

#22. My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.

Heather Schuck

#23. Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

Walther Von Brauchitsch

#24. In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

Narendra Modi

#25. I kept my head. Someone starts fuckin' shooting at me, I shoot back. It's fuckin' common sense.

Nicole Jacquelyn