I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.
I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
. . . we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and expresses it is shutting people down. It's funny to see that expressed, and then to go back and read poetic statements by the great poets of the past: they are full of a passionate conviction! It is clearly possible to express strong feelings about poetry while also defending the absolute right of myriad approaches.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.