All Quotes

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
‐‐ Mary Wortley Montagu

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
‐‐ Gina Carano

The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.
‐‐ Heather Graham

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
‐‐ Joel A. Barker

The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
‐‐ Boy George

The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
‐‐ Michael LeBoeuf

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
‐‐ Irvin D. Yalom

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.
‐‐ Dick Dale

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.
‐‐ Marin Ireland

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
‐‐ Ben Hogan

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.
‐‐ David Whyte

The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
‐‐ Leontyne Price

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
‐‐ Bernard Tschumi

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
‐‐ Gottfried Leibniz

The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
‐‐ Siobhan Fahey

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
‐‐ Larry Page

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
‐‐ Lester Bangs

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
‐‐ David Hare

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
‐‐ Morris Hite

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
‐‐ Aristotle

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
‐‐ Howard Cosell

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
‐‐ Hal Borland

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
‐‐ Marion Jones

The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
‐‐ John Linder