U Quotes
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“Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.”
“Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.”
Source: The Ultimate Athlete
“Ultimately, I am all I can know.”
“Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.”
Source: From This Moment On
“Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.”
“Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world with clean energy could be the first step on a path to global peace and global democracy - even in today's deeply troubled world.”
“Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?”
“Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.”
“Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.”
“Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not...as long as they understand it isn't EASY.”
“Ultimately, I don't know if love is an organizing principle we choose or if it's innate. I'm not sure the distinction matters to me much anymore; I just care about how we can reduce unnecessary suffering. I think that means learning to love in both the micro and the macro; engaging in ethical action at the level of intimacy and friendship, but also at the vocational level through our chosen work in the world, our right livelihood.”
“Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.”
“Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.”
“Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.”
Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian
“Ultimately, I just felt like Twitter brought out the worst in me. It made me super defensive when I was attacked, because you're under a constant state of attack. No one should be able to check their @ mentions, because Twitter is the equivalent of "Hey, those three people over there that are whispering... They're whispering about you! Do you want to know what they're saying?"”
“Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.”
“Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.”
“Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.”
“Ultimately, I think authenticity is always key, no matter what you do in life. It's also key to the branding side of things.”
“Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.”
“Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).”
“Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.”
“Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.”
“Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.”
“Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.”
“Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.”
“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.”
“Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work”
“Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.”
“Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.”
“Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.”
“Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.”
“Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.”
“Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.”
“Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.”
“Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that”
“Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.”
“Ultimately, if the character is interesting and you said that before: It doesn't matter if it's likable. That's really what it is. If they interest you. If the context in which the characters are set interests you then I think then you're pulled in by it.”
“Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.”
“Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.”
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.”
“Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.”
“Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.”
“Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. Holy week. Part two
“Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.”
“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”
“Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.”
“Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.”
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
“Ultimately, it is the people who judge, through elections, whether someone governs well or not. It's not up to other politicians to define and determine our colleagues.”