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A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Both as a filmmaker and as a fan I love the behind-the-scenes stuff, I like it even more than deleted scenes frankly. Especially when you're happy with the movie and you're proud of it, those deleted scenes give you also a sense of the making of the film and the process through which you end up with the final product.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.

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!

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve because and to the extent that it is provisional, hypothetical, when it looks for disconfirmation in the particular rather than final proof as a universal.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made

Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

Do I love him? Yes. But when the final battle comes, I'll have to kill him. That's just our reality. We both know exactly where we stand."- Francesca

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.

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

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.

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

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

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.