Finality Quotations

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

I'd like to stay and play and get some kind of finality to it. But that's athletics. It teaches us adversity and we have to deal with it now.

I don't know why he would be surprised. He said, 'I'm really looking forward to other opportunities.' So I'm surprised that he was surprised, because there was an awful lot of finality coming to me from the discussions between John's agent and the station.

I don't know that we have more to play for, but we have no tomorrow. It's the finality of it. If you don't win, you're done. It's easy to look past a team that has nothing to lose.

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

Jon went at it like it was just another tournament and that's the key. It's tough to adjust to the finality of this tournament.

Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

We just didn't score. They had 12 points at halftime and yet they were within a point. And the longer it remained a close game, the more pressure I think we felt was because of the finality of this single elimination.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

We remain of the view that the PO inquiry is policyholders' best hope for government compensation, and whatever the outcome, the inquiry should bring independence and some finality to the question of regulatory maladministration.

What I've always told the defendant through his counsel was that the state would seek life without the possibility of parole, and I like the finality of that.

To do his part to ensure the fairness, accuracy and finality of this election Governor Bush has decided our campaign will not seek a recount of the close vote in Iowa.

The Gore campaign has refused to achieve finality unless they achieve the result they are seeking,

The sooner we can resolve this the better. The time is now to bring finality and resolution.

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

The terms were very favorable to our client and both sides wanted finality having worked on this case for so long.

I wanted to give a sense of closure without an absolute finality to it. So it isn't like everyone dies or we blow up the lodge, or it was all a dream.

that's not a decision that has been conveyed to us with any finality by the chairman ... I'm confident there will be additional very important witnesses.

Although we view this as a done deal, the lack of finality in the approval may be holding some investors back. We continue to believe that silver will trade higher from here.

Emotional press conferences are not going to settle the issue. Canada needs to come back to the table. We need to close the door, roll up our sleeves and negotiate as need be, with good faith, and bring finality to it.

In both of those categories there's a standard. Either you are 18 years old when you commit a crime or you're not. Either your IQ is below 70 or it's not. Mental illness is a lot trickier for people to define, and so we haven't had the finality come from the courts that we have in these other categories.

Students using vouchers will now be welcomed back into Florida public schools. It decides with finality that the voucher program is unconstitutional.

The biggest thing is not to overreact and to keep responding. Our guys just kept responding. You can't get caught up in the emotion and the finality that these games can bring. The fact this team's been there before, I think, they really understand that mindset.

I love the challenge of molding a team to accomplish a goal, and I'm lucky because I've loved coming to work everyday and I've loved every day of my coaching career. The first day of practice of a new season is always my favorite day, and the finality of that final loss of the season is always the worst day. It takes me a few weeks to get over it.

The finality of the inventory correction is not only great for Intel but the entire semiconductor market. Investors had been assuming that the first quarter would be the bottom but it's nice to see real evidence of it.

The trial did lay bare evidence of crimes he was alleged to have committed. I don't feel the four years were a waste in this sense. Something of a record has been set out, though short of the finality of a verdict.

There needs to be some finality to this litigation. This child needs a permanent, stable home.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.