Quotes about Finality

Finality is not the language of politics. Votes: 6

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. Votes: 4

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. Votes: 4

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. Votes: 4

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. Votes: 4

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. Votes: 4

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. Votes: 4

Truly there is no such thing as finality. Votes: 2

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. Votes: 2

Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive. Votes: 2

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. Votes: 2

What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. Votes: 2

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. Votes: 2

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. Votes: 2

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. Votes: 2

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Votes: 2

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. Votes: 2

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all. Votes: 2

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living. Votes: 2

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. Votes: 2

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. Votes: 2

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. Votes: 2

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. Votes: 2

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. Votes: 2

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement. Votes: 2

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box. Votes: 2

Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. Votes: 2

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true. Votes: 2

We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality. Votes: 2

The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together. Votes: 2

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre. Votes: 2

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. Votes: 2

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward. Votes: 2

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor. Votes: 2

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197 Votes: 2

Action gives a decision power and finality. Votes: 0

What I believe is a process rather than a finality. Votes: 0

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. Votes: 0

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end. Votes: 0

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. Votes: 0

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. Votes: 0

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. Votes: 0

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race. Votes: 0

I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to. Votes: 0

I know one thing about men, Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. They never die when you want them to. Votes: 0

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. Votes: 0

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm. Votes: 0

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end. Votes: 0

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose. Votes: 0

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics. Votes: 0

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall. Votes: 0

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent. Votes: 0

I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on. Votes: 0

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is. Votes: 0

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. Votes: 0

Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. Votes: 0

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day. Votes: 0