Top 625 Finite Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.

I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.

I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook closes.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

I personally love working for finite series as it's important to convey that stories need not be stretched; they can get over in a year and still be loved by audiences.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

I don't think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it's like a finite series. But doing that as a daily soap is not easy.