The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
Fay Vincent

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Joseph Butler

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
Ignazio Silone

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
Bo Gritz

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
Peter D. Mitchell

The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
Kaley Cuoco

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman Mailer

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.
Steve Carlton

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
Phil Ochs

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. Forster

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Franz Kline

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
Jenny Shipley

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
Matt Lauer

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg