Absolutized Quotes & Sayings

My give-a-shit button's broken. You're my boy, and I say no.
Rune to Tiago — Thea Harrison

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you. — Taylor Swift

There 's not one atom of yon earth But once was living man; Nor the minutest drop of rain, That hangeth in its thinnest cloud, But flowed in human veins; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The first good-looking girl I see tonight is going to die. — Edmund Kemper

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers

Carnival laughter does not permit a single one of these aspects of change to be absolutized or to congeal in one-sided seriousness. — Mikhail Bakhtin

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Daisy pulled away from Swift's grasp. "You've changed," she said, trying to collect herself.
"You haven't," he replied.
It was impossible to tell whether the remark was intended as compliment or criticism.
"What were you doing at the well?"
"I was ... I thought ... " Daisy searched in vain for a sensible explanation, but could think of nothing. "It's a wishing well."
His expression was solemn, but there was a suspicious flicker in his vivid blue eyes as if he were secretly amused. "You have this on good authority, I take it?"
"Everyone in the local village visits it," Daisy replied testily. "It's a legendary wishing well."
He was staring at her the way she had always hated, absorbing everything, no detail escaping his notice. Daisy felt her cheeks turn blood-hot beneath his scrutiny.
"What did you wish for?" he asked.
"That's private."
"Knowing you," he said, "it could be anything. — Lisa Kleypas

The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry. — Dennis Prager

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. — Democritus

She kept watching the words. — Markus Zusak