Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
Aristotle
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The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s.
Steve Allen
History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
Hubert H. Humphrey
There were 85 of those signs from the city limits of Florence to Burlington. That's utterly ridiculous.
Ted Bushelman
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
Annie Dillard
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia Ashton Warner
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell
I'm utterly convinced that to maintain American global prosperity, we must pursue a sensible, market-oriented trade policy that provides greater market access and enforces our laws and agreements.
Susan Schwab
We are utterly dismayed that the government has not listened.
Alex Markham
Nothing is easy any more in the so-called Big Easy, which never really was all that easy to begin with. It is the same and utterly changed, in high spirits and deeply depressed, moving forward and stuck in late August.
Mary Herczog
I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
Alain De Botton
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God.
Luther Burbank
Our critics so far have been utterly incompetent. How do I know this? Because I know the "soft underbelly" of the Christian Reconstruction position. Every insider knows where the weak chinks are in his movement's armor. The best test of a critic's mastery of his opponent's system is his ability to go straight for his opponent's weakest spots.
Gary North
The change that Mr. Barnard wants to make in the school board policy is utterly ridiculous.
Mary Gordon
We're utterly convinced it's worth it for the brand. But it's still a daunting task.
Karen Jennings
President Bush spoke of the risks of economic isolation and the critical importance of American competitiveness. I am utterly convinced that to maintain American global prosperity, we must pursue a sensible, market-oriented trade policy that provides greater market access and enforces our laws and agreements.
Susan Schwab
It's appropriate that in due course the Serious Fraud Office should be held accountable, utterly accountable for its conduct in this case.
Malcolm Beattie
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
Sometimes when I watch very famous people on television, they make me long for death! These utterly pitiful little exhibitionists who don't nourish anyone but just talk very loudly are now actually guiding us and telling us what to think. I think, 'Well, one day I'll be dead and then I'll get away from you.'
Tom Baker
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
Sam Francis
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
Paul Hawken
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
Margaret Oliphant
The profit margins of these companies are utterly unsustainable. And this should be the inflection year for the Indian firms.
Rod Bourgeois
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisiteas the pure love of one woman for another?
Mary Maclane
I think there are serious issues Washington needs to address, and they won't get addressed. The government is utterly overcommitted on entitlements, and it's not going to be fixed any time soon.
Donald Straszheim
All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.
Albert Speer
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
William Graham Sumner
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
Alan Keyes
Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.
Stephen Evans
It is unlikely that bondholders would get utterly buried in a takeover. There is a lifeline, in the form of covenants.
James Foster
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Roger Ebert
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
Giacomo Leopardi
The Fish and Wildlife Service's finding utterly failed to consider the magnitude of the threat facing Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The Yellowstone cutthroat trout is beset by a multitude of factors and requires immediate protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Noah Greenwald
This is a fire sale of public lands. It is utterly unprecedented. It signals that the lands and the agency that manages them are in deep trouble.
Char Miller
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
Donna Leon
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch
Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.
Malcolm Mclaren
We were looking to have her be one of the setters this summer and she'd gone from not setting last year to setting part-time this summer to setting full-time. To do the job she's done is utterly amazing. She takes it very seriously and she has been such a joy for us.
Jon Giordano
To be utterly honest, a decade ago we were all putting out stuff that tasted like cardboard. Overall, the industry has improved.
Cynthia Harriman
The decision is utterly mind-boggling despite all the evidence which favors the defendant.
Christopher Fernando
This slow relaxation of energy is utterly different from the mechanism in single bases that transforms the energy into heat in less than a trillionth of a second.
Bern Kohler
I certainly believe the Weavers were utterly innocent, were a threat to nobody, and if you can't believe crazy things on top of a mountain in Idaho, where can you believe crazy things?
Jon Ronson
In the bioethics community, this is widely understood as utterly out of the realm of coherent human subject protections and a failure in the duties of a tenured professor.
Laurie Zoloth
Her vision of what the country is, and what she should be writing about, is totally her own. She's utterly in step with the current moment, ... She's in touch with contemporary culture and the things people in their 20s are interested in, but it's all informed with a level of attention and idealism about America as a place you would expect from somebody much older and tweedier.
Ira Glass
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Kate Millett
One of our jobs is to keep an eye on California in case it gets too utterly bizarre. A glitch in California raises (electricity) prices from Alberta to West Texas.
Robert Mccullough
It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Simon Newcomb
This was an utterly terrifying experience for those on the receiving end of your behaviour. It was an offence of the utmost gravity.
David Turner
God sustains, cherishes and loves. He is who we answer to. ... In the end God decides what the fate of a person will be. ... We see suicide bombings, war and desecration of life every day. These are things we need to tackle and give an understanding of what Muslims think of these things. They are completely and utterly against every teaching.
Kareem Afzal
Having written about a place that was utterly destroyed, it struck me as interesting to look at a place that had come through the war almost literally unscathed, ... I thought, 'And yet and yet and yet ... Does any place [really] come out unscathed?' .
Joseph Kanon
This is completely and utterly predictable. People who don't pay taxes don't get a tax cut.
Dan Mitchell
Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, job-free creative burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong.
Hugh Macleod
We are utterly dismayed that the government has not listened to doctors, health charities and the public, all of whom have voiced overwhelming support for a smoke-free law without exemptions.
Alex Markham
It is possible for millions...to be almost utterly deprived of representation in the House of Commons.
Jeremy Thorpe
My father's life seemed and still seems utterly mysterious to me. He came alone to the States from Russia at age eleven.
Philip Levine
As a little child you are utterly dependent on the people that are your caretakers, and he was supposed to take care of her.
Rusty Ladd
I think it can be done. It utterly can be done, it's just that the money is caught by the cap. We are able to do deals where money comes from companies as long as it doesn't breach the cap.
Hamish Riach
Been given a sudden glimpse into the foundations of one's house and seen, with horror, that it was utterly infested and rotting away.
Midge Decter
Would any of [the president's] aides have the nerve to explain to the president that a Gonzales nomination would utterly demoralize many of his supporters?
Bill Kristol
What is utterly absurd happens in the world.
Nikolai Gogol
It will be hard to shoot the ibis because people will certainly say we are being cruel and try to stop us. It's bizarre but it makes a difference that they are white. If they were black, no one would care. It's utterly irrational but that's how people are.
Matthieu Vaslin
I was just utterly stunned, ... There's literally no bird in the world that does anything that prepares you for it. It's totally unique.
Richard Prum
We were disappointed that they decided to go ahead with the filing of the lawsuit. It has utterly no merit whatsoever, and we're convinced that we will prevail in court.
Bill Goodman
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon
Look at what he utterly obliterated: Danielle van Dam. We need go no further than that.
David Westerfield
Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.
Hugh Macleod
I am utterly delighted for Rory Carroll and his family.
Joe Carroll
This was an utterly terrifying experience for those on the receiving end. It was an offence of the utmost gravity.
David Turner
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
Eugene Ionesco
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
Ethan Hawke
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