Quotes with final

Quotes 61 till 80 of 98.

  • Alice Munro Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Michael Korda Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Jules Ellinger Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
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  • John F. Kennedy The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible of a final military solution.
    Westpoint, 06-06-1962
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Edwin Markham The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Eric Hoffer The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Woodward 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
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Ignazio Silone The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Paine The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Anne Frank The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Seneca The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Norman Mailer The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • E. M. Forster The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • William Lyon Phelps The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Walter Lippmann The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Angela Carter The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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  • Ann Coulter The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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