1.
It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.
Attila the Hun
2.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The ultimate goal of music should be to exalt God and invigorate the spirit.
3.
Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Those in power must be aware of how citizens respond to governing. Ultimately, the population are the ultimate deciders.
4.
Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.
Sri Aurobindo
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Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Patrick Pearse
'The spilling of blood is a purifying and hallowing act, and the country that views it as the ultimate terror has forfeited its masculinity... there are countless matters more odious than bloodshed, and servitude is one of them!'
6.
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.
Edward Said
Hominism is the ultimate safeguard against the unrighteous and oppressive deeds that have blighted human past.
7.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
A country which makes the ultimate contribution for existence and liberty will not succumb.
8.
I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.
Milarepa
9.
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
10.
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
Zig Ziglar
Recall that your current circumstances are not the conclusion of your story; the best awaits you.
11.
There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
Tony Benn
12.
The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.
Thomas Troward
14.
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.
Mark Rothko
15.
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
Johann Sebastian Bach
16.
Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.
Pete Carroll
17.
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.
Thomas Wolfe
18.
If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.
I. F. Stone
20.
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
21.
In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.
John P. Kotter
22.
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.
John Eldredge
24.
Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.
John Henrik Clarke
25.
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
Stephen Crane
26.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant
28.
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
Rudolf Rocker
29.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker
30.
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.
Karl Shapiro
31.
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
32.
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
Francis Crick
33.
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
34.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?
Franz Kline
35.
I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying that’s not the final story. It’s not saying pain doesn’t exist, but it’s saying there’s not a period at the end of that sentence. It’s still being written.
Tim Foreman
36.
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.
Frank Sinatra
37.
The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
38.
When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
Tracy Austin
39.
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
Arthur Miller
40.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Arthur Machen
41.
From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.
Neil Peart
42.
The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
43.
The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.
Denver Moore
44.
Success is not forever, and failure is never final.
Don Shula
45.
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
Henri Pirenne
46.
I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.
Stephen Curry
47.
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven's last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
Jeremy Denk
48.
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
Harri Holkeri
49.
There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home.
Katherine Marsh
50.
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.
Pedro Arrupe