Absolutist Thinking Quotes & Sayings

I want to be an honest man and a good writer. — James Baldwin

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. — Alex Haley

Amelia told me once about a suspicion she'd had for a while. It bothered her quite a bit. She said that Win and I had fallen ill with scarlet fever, and you made the deadly nightshade syrup, you'd concocted far more than was necessary. And you kept a cup on it on Win's nightstand, like some sort of macabre nightcap. Amelia said that if Win had died, she thought you would have taken the rest of that poison. And I've always hated you for that. Because you forced me to stay alive without the woman I loved, while you had no bloody hell intention of doing the same."
Merripen didn't answer, gave no sign that he registered Leo's words.
"Christ, man," Leo said huskily. "If you had the bollocks to die with her, don't you think you could work up the courage to live with her? — Lisa Kleypas

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it. — Jonathan Stroud

few sometimes may know, when thousands err — John Milton

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic. — Daniel Bruhl

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos. — Cesar Chavez

Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not possible to know what you need to learn. — Phil Crosby

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins — Tony Hsieh

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war. — John F. Kerry

But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear? — Michael Cox

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing. — Eric Fischl