Complete Quotes

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor. (Marcus Aurelius)
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. View quote
Stephen Hawking
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. View quote
Josh Billings
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. View quote
Lope de Vega
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. View quote
Betty Friedan
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! View quote
Denis Diderot
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. View quote
Henry James
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. (Aleister Crowley)
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. View quote
F. H. Bradley
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. View quote
Douglas Adams
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. View quote
Salman Rushdie
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. View quote
Jack London
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. View quote
Franklin Pierce
Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. (Alfred P. Sloan)
There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete. View quote
Parmenides
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world. View quote
Georges Simenon
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. View quote
Yukio Mishima