Utmost Quotes

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Regarding his spat with New Line: "We have a great many friends at New Line and utmost respect for the risk they took with us and it hurts to be hit with the level of venom directed at us from individuals in that company. It`s been a lot more nasty behind the scenes than what`s been made public. It`s just an accounting dispute at the end of the day, but it makes you wonder what they have to hide."

- Peter Jackson

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don`t get very much approbation for it.

- Joan Collins

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Screenings in general are incredibly important because cancer, like many other diseases, the first part in curing it is detecting it. So prevention is of the utmost importance.

- Jennifer Robinson

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally`s strategic independence from Europe.

- Richard Perle

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

- Winston Churchill

As long as you`re respected among your peers, that`s all that matters, and he has my utmost respect. He`s proven himself. He continues to reinvent himself. Everything he does on that court, you`d best believe every other player recognizes it. He is a true All-Star and one of the elite point guards.

- Baron Davis

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

- Ariel Sharon

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

- Slobodan Milosevic

In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.

- James Agee

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

- Carl Levin

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

- Louis Aragon

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Italo Calvino

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

- Ralph Ellison

It`s wholly distressing that anyone involved in any part of this process would break the law and bypass protocol designed for utmost patient safety.

- Kelly Sullivan

It is my position that the incident that occurred on July 23, 2003, was a matter of the utmost seriousness, that it was a vicious assault that was entirely consistent with homicidal intent, and that such intent could be and should be proven against both Wayne and Cynthia Jensen,

- Scott Roberts

I`m going to do my utmost to get a clear round inside the time (10 minutes 22 seconds) but I`m aiming to get my team place back next year.

- Pippa Funnell

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

- Aaron Day

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

- Abhinav Bindra

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

- Ahmad Wesley

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

- Al Hahn

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man`s nature.

- Al Thrasher

I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

- Al Zappala

But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get.

- Alan Schlesinger

I am convinced that, under the threat of the impoverishment of our people, the machinery of government must be simplified to the utmost.

- Alex Zwart

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

- Alexander Jablokov

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

- Alexander Silbiger

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

- Andrew McCormick

This is a landmark CAS decision and one that the IAAF welcomes as it continues to pursue its anti-doping fight with the utmost vigor.

- Anirban Basu

We will do our utmost to show our commitment in the fight against doping. We plan to have the most ambitious and comprehensive system of testing ever activated at a world championships.

- Anirban Basu

It cannot possibly be good for honest officers to be working under the terrible cloud that these allegations have created, ... If Chief Strong and the Department really did their utmost to stop the crimes at the Danish then let a full investigation show this and let the citizens regain faith in their police department.

- Ann Harrington

This was an utterly terrifying experience for those on the receiving end of your behaviour. It was an offence of the utmost gravity.

- Anthony Spencer

This was an utterly terrifying experience for those on the receiving end. It was an offence of the utmost gravity.

- Anthony Spencer

Jimmy Smith . He`s my all-time favorite. When the Oilers-slash-Titans drafted me I was told the reason I was brought in was to cover a guy like Jimmy Smith. I remember the first time looking at the film of him, and he was unbelievable. Then, my first time playing against him, he was better than the film. He`s just the ultimate competitor. He hasn`t lost a step and he`s a great receiver. I have the utmost respect for him.

- Barb Skogen

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

- Barbara Roberts

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It's not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

- William Somerset Maugham