Best 731 quotes in «finals quotes» category

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

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.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

For me, the fashion show, the image, the shooting, is just a step. It's just a moment, but it's not the final destination.

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.

George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value cannot be ascertained because the transaction is not made by private parties exchanging their own resources in a market setting.

Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Happiness is a way of travelling and not a final destination.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

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.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me. “You and I need to talk, Kitten.” “Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet. “It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now.

(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

Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a result we've reduced taxes and lowered the unemployment rate. We have done that through hard work and sticking to our Iowa values. In the final months of this campaign I'll be asking voters to send me, and those Iowa values, to Washington, D.C.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

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.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.