Top 100 Finite's Quotes

#1. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.

C.S. Lewis

Finite's Quotes #632
#2. We're not given forever. We're given just a finite amount of time on this earth. It's up to us to decide how we are going to spend that time, and who we are going to spend it with.

T.M. Frazier

Finite's Quotes #1976
#3. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

Debasish Mridha

Finite's Quotes #2553
#4. Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

H. G. Bissinger

Finite's Quotes #3482
#5. Time is relative, Einstein tells us. It's an artificial construct that we have created to remind us that we are finite, mortal. The universe doesn't wear a wristwatch. And thankfully, I decided to stop wearing one the day I found out I had terminal cancer." --My Own Personal Singularity

Glen Robinson

Finite's Quotes #6006
#6. I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

Andy Partridge

Finite's Quotes #14123
#7. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!

Ken Puddicombe

Finite's Quotes #36119
#8. Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him.

Paul Chappell

Finite's Quotes #46527
#9. And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Rowan Williams

Finite's Quotes #77153
#10. With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

Tom Verlaine

Finite's Quotes #95369
#11. There is a finite group of major financial players ... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.

Gary Cohn

Finite's Quotes #148284
#12. As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

Andrea M. Ghez

Finite's Quotes #170462
#13. Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Bill Gates

Finite's Quotes #227037
#14. Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

Edith Stein

Finite's Quotes #227709
#15. But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.

Alexander McCall Smith

Finite's Quotes #236966
#16. Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all they can be, I think that's so much more important than one person's glory.

Felicia Day

Finite's Quotes #253524
#17. In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

Demetri Martin

Finite's Quotes #260941
#18. I realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

Melissa Bank

Finite's Quotes #286816
#19. When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.

Warren Ellis

Finite's Quotes #310623
#20. My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.

David Doubilet

Finite's Quotes #311861
#21. The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

Edward Burtynsky

Finite's Quotes #320259
#22. Hugh Laurie once described how he eventually came to realise that there is not a finite amount of success in the world, and that someone else gaining great success did not necessarily mean that there was now less to go around for everyone else. It's a good thing to remember.

Rob Brydon

Finite's Quotes #334634
#23. Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

Arthur C. Brooks

Finite's Quotes #381395
#24. You're not going to do this forever. There's a finite amount of time you're going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, everybody will see that, and they'll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you'll move.

Gene Ross

Finite's Quotes #386443
#25. Nothing lasts forever. Everything is fleeting. And yet, that's the very reason that life has meaning. When things cost effort to gain and are finite they are of value.

Sarah Noffke

Finite's Quotes #401336
#26. There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.

Reed Hastings

Finite's Quotes #412510
#27. The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

Tullian Tchividjian

Finite's Quotes #425404
#28. God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

Craig S. Keener

Finite's Quotes #428082
#29. We are here for a finite amount of time ... it's up to each of us to make that time meaningful and special.

Philip Carter

Finite's Quotes #438140
#30. Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore

Finite's Quotes #456833
#31. One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

Nicholson Baker

Finite's Quotes #466034
#32. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Hans Kung

Finite's Quotes #469179
#33. There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)

Tom Perrotta

Finite's Quotes #482298
#34. We all have a finite amount of energy and time to give, and must figure out the best way to have an impact on the things that matter to us most - and it's okay that each one of us will do it differently.

Jan Fields

Finite's Quotes #502958
#35. When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

Richard Linklater

Finite's Quotes #552137
#36. She wondered at the joyous, proud comfort to be found in a sense of the finite, in the knowledge that the field of one's concern lay within the realm of one's sight.

Ayn Rand

Finite's Quotes #559501
#37. There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

Jeremy Grantham

Finite's Quotes #576791
#38. Her love for him is not something that can be changed - it's physics, not emotion: It's the exact weight of radium. It is vast and it is exact. It is tender and finite and inexhaustible. Her love for him is a fact. Her love for him is a brutal fact about the world.

Charles Yu

Finite's Quotes #577375
#39. Maybe we have only a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted.

Ayana Mathis

Finite's Quotes #602065
#40. For all the glamour of living forever ... immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it's fleeting and significant. But immortality ... immortality isn't living at all. It's a permanent existence void of meaning.

Chelsea Fine

Finite's Quotes #607235
#41. The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.

Anne-Marie Duff

Finite's Quotes #613861
#42. Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn't, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one's own body.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

Finite's Quotes #663489
#43. In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

C.S. Lewis

Finite's Quotes #686043
#44. We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

Frank Ocean

Finite's Quotes #694691
#45. Everything is so finite but that's what makes our time and specific moments so important.

Ethan Hawke

Finite's Quotes #743183
#46. The innards of Ping's G5 were supposedly computer-engineered with a process called "finite-element analysis," a term that for all I know was stolen from an old Star Trek episode.

Carl Hiaasen

Finite's Quotes #773566
#47. Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

Diane Lane

Finite's Quotes #813511
#48. When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.

Solange Nicole

Finite's Quotes #828560
#49. To this day, she's still sad. Because there's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I'm just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn't hurt me at all.

Tom Perrotta

Finite's Quotes #830812
#50. Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Finite's Quotes #845092
#51. All man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.

Charlie Munger

Finite's Quotes #846014
#52. People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Finite's Quotes #867158
#53. Love is a soft whisper coming from the beating one's heart. It's gentle rhythm gives you a feeling of ecstasy you cannot readily fathom for it's not easily defined nor there are finite reasons as to why it is felt by someone.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

Finite's Quotes #903083
#54. Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Finite's Quotes #959814
#55. There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Ethan Hawke

Finite's Quotes #972825
#56. The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

Mark Ruffalo

Finite's Quotes #992809
#57. God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Henry James

Finite's Quotes #1011040
#58. Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.

Cassandra Clare

Finite's Quotes #1020223
#59. When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

Joanna Lumley

Finite's Quotes #1026071
#60. Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

Mark Waters

Finite's Quotes #1029346
#61. Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.

Tom Price

Finite's Quotes #1045289
#62. Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

C.S. Lewis

Finite's Quotes #1052142
#63. Ensconced in our finite spaces,
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs.

Taranum

Finite's Quotes #1090160
#64. That's what being in love looks like. I didn't have that, and I wanted it.

But then you found it.

I did, but that doesn't mean you won't. Love isn't a finite thing in the universe. It's not like it gets used up by people who got there first.

Melanie Harlow

Finite's Quotes #1123613
#65. Days are a finite resource and it's best to protect the ones you have.

Catherine Lacey

Finite's Quotes #1141959
#66. Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

Frederick Lenz

Finite's Quotes #1145095
#67. By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.

Steven Galloway

Finite's Quotes #1186161
#68. If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

Jodi Picoult

Finite's Quotes #1189766
#69. Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country ... and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

Greg Laurie

Finite's Quotes #1244724
#70. We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God's Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the basis of what God's Word says - not the other way around.

Ken Ham

Finite's Quotes #1259144
#71. Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

Jim Whitehurst

Finite's Quotes #1271975
#72. Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me.

Jeanette Winterson

Finite's Quotes #1279379
#73. History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)

Kat Georges

Finite's Quotes #1283008
#74. Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.

C.S. Lewis

Finite's Quotes #1285449
#75. You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

J.D. Salinger

Finite's Quotes #1329957
#76. Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Sturgill Simpson

Finite's Quotes #1338536
#77. The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Larry Fessenden

Finite's Quotes #1341522
#78. Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

Rose Tremain

Finite's Quotes #1348737
#79. Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Finite's Quotes #1381711
#80. Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

Van Jones

Finite's Quotes #1383239
#81. Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

Beau Willimon

Finite's Quotes #1397363
#82. One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

Kelly Williams Brown

Finite's Quotes #1404987
#83. Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

Sri Aurobindo

Finite's Quotes #1407419
#84. As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.

Amanda Schull

Finite's Quotes #1467889
#85. There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Roxane Gay

Finite's Quotes #1506301
#86. Man's soul cries for the infinite in a finite world. That's why nothing ever satisfies us.

Karan Bajaj

Finite's Quotes #1520541
#87. In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.

Howard Gordon

Finite's Quotes #1543952
#88. Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Donella Meadows

Finite's Quotes #1602094
#89. It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.

Charlie Munger

Finite's Quotes #1608977
#90. People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

Glenn Close

Finite's Quotes #1613392
#91. If you are united with Christ today, the number of sins you will commit in your lifetime is a finite number, and they were all paid for in full before you emerged from your mother's womb.

Barbara R. Duguid

Finite's Quotes #1615397
#92. Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second

Robert Ringer

Finite's Quotes #1626650
#93. Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal ...

Henry David Thoreau

Finite's Quotes #1632390
#94. There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Robin Day

Finite's Quotes #1665662
#95. Because our brain's resources are limited, we are left with a choice: to use those finite resources to see only pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning.

Shawn Achor

Finite's Quotes #1676985
#96. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Thomas Carlyle

Finite's Quotes #1681352
#97. In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

Garrett Hardin

Finite's Quotes #1684633
#98. I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

Diane Lane

Finite's Quotes #1693726
#99. ( ... ) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' ( ... ) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

Lauren Beukes

Finite's Quotes #1699338
#100. You meet a finite number of people in your life. It feels to you like it's infinite, but it's not. I think it's the biggest thing I can see that you can't.

B.J. Novak

Finite's Quotes #1718547

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