Finals famous quotes
05-20-2025
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At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke
-- Aaron Allston -
When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .
-- Abdullah Abdullah -
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
-- Adam Ant -
The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question
-- Adolf Hitler -
I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.
-- Adolph Ochs -
Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
-- Alan Alda -
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
-- Albert Camus -
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
-- Albert Camus -
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
-- Albert Hadley -
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
-- Albert Pierrepoint -
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
-- Alberto Moravia -
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The final act of business judgment is intuitive.
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
-- Ali Smith -
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
-- Amelia Barr -
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
-- Amira Hass -
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.
-- Andy Greenwald -
It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.
-- Andy Murray -
In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
-- Ann Widdecombe -
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
-- Anne Tyler -
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.
-- Antonio Banderas -
I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.
-- Antonio Davis -
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.
-- Archie Macpherson -
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
-- Arthur Bloch -
I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
-- Arthur Godfrey -
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
-- Arthur Machen -
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
-- Arthur Miller -
The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.
-- Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.
-- Augustus Toplady -
Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.
-- Ava Gardner -
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident; ...
-- Bernard Bailyn -
They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).
-- Bernard Laporte -
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. BERTRAND RUSSELL, "Social Cohesion and Human Nature", Authority and the Individual A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
-- Bill Ayers -
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
-- Bill Brandt -
Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
-- Bill Jenkins -
The only important statistic is the final score.
-- Bill Russell -
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
-- Bill Shankly -
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
-- Billy Sunday -
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
-- Billy Wilder -
Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
-- Bob Barker -
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
-- Bob Woodward -
In the end, your creativity -- perhaps even your outrageousness -- will determine the final result.
-- Bobby Flay -
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
-- Bong Joon-ho -
It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.
-- Brandon Routh -
Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
-- Brian Greene -
Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
-- Brian Tracy -
It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
-- Brigham Young -
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
-- Brit Marling -
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute
-- Bruce Sterling -
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.
-- Buddhadasa -
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals
-- Byron Scott -
The final solution for unemployment is work.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!
-- Calvin Trillin -
I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.
-- Camilo Villegas -
Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals
-- Carl Lewis -
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.
-- Carl Sagan -
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.
-- Carroll Quigley -
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.
-- Catherine Yass -
In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
-- Chairil Anwar -
Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.
-- Charles Darwin -
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.
-- Charles Francis Richter -
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
-- Charles Hodge -
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
-- Charles P. Kindleberger -
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.
-- Charles Taze Russell -
Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.
-- Chris Bradford -
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
-- Chris Weitz -
The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
Success in never final; failure is never fatal
-- Conrad Hilton -
She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.
-- Craig Armstrong -
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
-- Dalai Lama -
In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
-- Dalai Lama -
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
-- Dallas Willard -
We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.
-- Dallin H. Oaks
