#ultimate

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #different #essays #i #interested

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concern #concerns #contains #grasped

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#between #come #divide #fairness #him

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#character #had #jokes #leading #lot

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. ↗

— Mark White

#experience #experimentation #personal #sound #ultimately

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#brother #dad #day #first #goal

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#assumption #become #concrete #direction #experience

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#because #beings #believe #enlightenment #flaws

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#ourselves #responsible #ultimately