Fairs Quotes

• It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

  William Carlos Williams

  Sweaters, Brown, Not Fair

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Needs, Alive

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• The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Sex, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

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• Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Imagination, Optimism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

  Danica Patrick

  Cheer, Weekend, Play

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• Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Clever, Philosophy, Play

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• Life is not fair; God is.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life Is, Not Fair

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• My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, Views

  "Foreboding rises over Zimbabwe". news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

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• I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, People

  "Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders" by Nkepile Mabuse, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2008.

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• You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Cells, People

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• [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

  Ani DiFranco

  Summer, Nice, Thinking

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• In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

  Noam Chomsky

  Stress, Law, Trials

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “9-11: Was There an Alternative?”, p.16, Seven Stories Press

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• Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Solitude, Cherish

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• Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

  Bill Gates

  Doe, Skype, Revenue

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• I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Country, School

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• This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a "better land," without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving, Ohio, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
  But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Hands, Fortune

  1597-8 Henry, receiving good news when ill. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.103-4.

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• My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.

  Bill Cosby

  Believe, Love You, Kissing

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• Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.

  Conan O'Brien

  Vanity, Wife, President

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• I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

  Cathy Freeman

  Running, Share, Dangerous

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• I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.'

  Demetri Martin

  Children, Kids, Sound

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• Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Sweet, Giving

  "Basic Cable Personality Skirmish '09". "The Daily Show" official website, March 10, 2009.

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• Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?

  Jon Stewart

  Hands, Differences, Cnn

  C-SPAN interview, October 14, 2004.

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• You might be a redneck if the biggest fashion risk you take is which plaid you'll wear to the 4-H Fair.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Fashion, Redneck, Risk

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• I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Philosophy, Thinking, Media

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