U Quotes
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“Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.”
“Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.”
“Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.”
“Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.”
“Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.”
“Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.”
“Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.”
“Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.”
“Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.”
“Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.”
“Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”
“Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.”
“Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their significance within the whole of life, of society, of spirituality, of history, of nature. In all merely partial or fragmentary perspectives, there necessarily remain undigested irrational factors, surds that one is merely tolerating and not truly respecting as essential and integral to the whole of what we are.”
“Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it.”
“Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.”
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim”
“Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.”
“Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.”
“Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.”
“Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.”
“Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.”
“Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.”
“Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.”
“Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.”
“Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.”
“Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.”
“ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.”
Source: The Unity of Being
“Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.”
“Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.”
“Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.”
“Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural selection's most successful hoaxes ever-and smile at the sheer ingenuity involved in pulling it off, at the very thought of such mindless cleverness. One can still enjoy the illusion of God, after all, without believing Him to be real.”
Source: The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life
“Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.”
Source: Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
“Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.”
Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism
“Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.”
“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.”
“Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.”
“Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.”
“Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.”
Source: Jesus, the One and Only
“Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.”
“Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.”
“Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.”
“Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.”
“Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.”
“Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.”
“Ultimately, strong branding is not just a promise to our customers,to our partners, to our shareholders and to our communities;it is also a promise to ourselves... in that sense, it is about using a brand as a beacon, as a compass, for determining the right actions, for staying the course, for evolving a culture, for inspiring a company to reach its full potential.”
“Ultimately, success is going to be up to the reformers, just like in Iraq. It's going to require Iraqis, the will of Iraqis to succeed. I understand that. And that's why our strategy is to give them the tools necessary to defend themselves and help them defend themselves; in this case right now mainly in Baghdad, but as well around the country.”