Quotes about Absolute

34 quotes about Absolute

Mihai Eminescu is the absolute melancholy of Romanian...

Mihai Eminescu is the absolute melancholy of Romanian people, in universal tender expansion.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about absolute

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about absolute

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about absolute

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts...

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about absolute

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts...

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Quote by Lord Acton about absolute

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about absolute

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute...

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

Quote by Bruce Barton about absolute

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about absolute

The absolute is the wind blowing; it's just the fact that...

The absolute is the wind blowing; it's just the fact that there was a storm that day.

Quote by Richard Gere about absolute

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule:...

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about absolute

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about absolute

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about absolute

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts abolutely.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts abolutely.

Quote by Winston Churchill about absolute

As soon as an EMS Rule is accepted as absolute, an...

As soon as an EMS Rule is accepted as absolute, an exception to that Rule will immediately occur.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about absolute

She was beginning to understand that evil is not...

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

Quote by Gilbert Parker about absolute

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Quote by Andy Partridge about absolute

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about absolute

There is no absolute point of view from which real and...

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about absolute

All these prove the fact that we cannot accept that everything reduces to the meaning of man, not the fact the signs were always in sight, and they were neither created nor determined, but they would have existed eternally, being that true as to...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about absolute

I love things that age well - things that don't date, ...

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Quote by Giorgio Armani about absolute

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