Top 534 Absolute Quotes

The American Museum of Natural History is my son’s absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
Mark Teixeira
How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?
John C. Calhoun
The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They’re horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.
Lloyd Kaufman
Architecture is the beginning of something because it’s – if you’re not involved in first principles, if you’re not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it’s cake decoration.
Thom Mayne
I don’t like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.
Alan W. Livingston
I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.
Kim Basinger
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends

Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
Daniel Lubetzky
A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn’t have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.
Chelsea Manning
My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a ‘Mass Effect’ guy hanging out with a ‘Sailor Moon,’ and they’re just having a great time.
Joss Whedon
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine Albright
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly
We are the millions and millions of Americans who take responsibility for our own safety and protection of our children as a God-given right. We are proud to exercise that right, are not ashamed of it and deserve nothing less than absolute respect and admiration as lawful gun owners.
Wayne LaPierre
It was an absolute pleasure working with Stephen Graham. I’ve admired his work for many years, and what he brings is that real sense of authenticity.
Jed Mercurio
You’re more constrained when you’re wealthy. Or when you’re making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you’re at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
John Carney
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
Murray Rothbard
To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
Christo
I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide – to run away and hide.
David Schwimmer
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
My daughter’s absolute go-to is Sasha Banks. However, we did do the ‘Dance Break’ one time in Chicago, so she keeps talking about Carmella.
Mustafa Ali
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Hu Shih
I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
Sai Baba
I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
Sheri L. Dew
Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films – where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor, and still nothing happens at the end of the shot. Those films tried to be cool and fashionable by dispensing with drama, which, in my opinion, is absolute nonsense.
Naseeruddin Shah
I’m the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.
Timothy Morton
Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning – these little pieces of innocence – to wake them and find they’re so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.
Michael Douglas
I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.
Rick Santorum
I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Rudolf Nureyev
It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
Jon Corzine
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They’re one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.
Steve Albini
My absolute favorite growing up was ‘Super Friends.’ The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.
Michael Ian Black
I have cellulite – and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I’m never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it’s there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.
Holly Madison
The irony is that ‘looking down on everybody else’ is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.
John Ortberg
As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager’s bedroom when I was 32.
Greg Davies
The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn’t fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they’re tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
James Lankford
I don’t ever assume that people are going to love or appreciate what I do. It would be great. I don’t assume that they’re not going to. I just am like, ‘I’m going to do my absolute best at everything I do, and I’m going to put it out with pride and hope people enjoy it.’
Tig Notaro
My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.
Rege-Jean Page
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Paul Ricoeur
It’s just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it’s a little bit more recent.
James Marsters
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Loren Eiseley
With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire to teach the world how to become successful, Napoleon Hill devoted nearly his entire adult lifetime creating practical content entrepreneurs need to become successful.
Clay Clark
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson
‘New Mutants’ is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it… That’s why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, ‘I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.’
Rob Liefeld
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
Leroy Hood
I think my generation’s inability to speak in absolute terms when it comes to politics is a very positive thing; it’s made us more nuanced, made us more complex.
Hisham Matar
I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
Jack Lemmon
Carl Pendleton’s the absolute best. He’s everything you want in a student-athlete.
Bob Stoops
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
John Lahr
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.
Simon McBurney
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.
Tom Price
I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.
Billy Sheehan
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin
Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian ‘space clown.’ I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and the absolute traveling experience.
Guy Laliberte