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"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." »Brooks Atkinson
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" »Harry Shearer
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"absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer
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"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself." »Oprah Winfrey
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"You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams." »Libby Houston
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"The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities." »Eric Hoffer
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians." »David Brinkley
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"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?" »Sorin Cerin
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity." »Bruce Lee
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"There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute." »Patrick Stewart
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"My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute." »William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
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"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley
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"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity." »Sorin Cerin
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance." »Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley
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"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848
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"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies." »Sorin Cerin
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"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." »George Santayana
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." »George Eliot
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"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass" »Lewis Mumford
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