Finals Quotes

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

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

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.

So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.

Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

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

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

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

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."

... the final judge was truth -- immortal.

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

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

When I look back, I didn't enjoy any of the big games. I didn't enjoy any of the finals. You enjoy lifting the trophy and the celebrations. But it was always the next game.

The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

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.

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.