#absolute

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #happened #i #kind #sept

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#country #depends #good #good men #men

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#absolutely not #cannot #catch #collect #commander-in-chief

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ↗

— Hu Shih

#absolute truth #arouse #eternal #intellectual #only

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#both #collecting #collector #delight #early

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#average #commonplace #compositions #conceived #false

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#absolutely #arts #liberal #liberal arts #necessary

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#birthday #birthday party #called #critics #day

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#around #became #brat #everyone #father

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#alone #beginning #forcefully #hearts #letters