Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. Annie Dillard
First and foremost, my involvement within the Olympic pursuit and Games were obviously surrounded by only putting the absolute best nutrients into my body. Apolo Ohno
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. Harold Brodkey
I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves. Michael Johnson
If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself. Dan Marino
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. Bruce Barton
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Graham Greene
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.Martin Luther King
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years. Mary Kay Blakely
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. Rebecca Harding Davis
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
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. Kate Chopin
We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else. John Elway
With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them. John McGraw
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. Margaret Atwood