Fine Quotes

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Work, Long, Violence

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• I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Law, Drug

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• The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

  Morley Safer

  Travel, Views, World

  Morley Safer (1990). “Flashbacks: on returning to Vietnam”, Random House Inc

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• To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Numbers, Unexpected

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Whales, Ants

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• Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

  Voltaire

  Inspiring, Today, Illusion

  "Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  Dar Williams

  Forgiveness, Night, Needs

  Song: My Friends

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• Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Worry, Helping

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1967, e-artnow

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• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  Wyatt Earp

  Morning, Live Life, Quality

  "Playing loose and fast with the truth" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Fine Words, Vices

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117

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• New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

  Neil Kinnock

  Loyalty, Political, Quality

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• There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

  Paul Davies

  Powerful, Science, If There Is A God

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• Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

  Charles MacArthur

  Travel, Adventure, Men

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• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  William Styron

  Pain, Writing, Feelings

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Political, Skins

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• The private sector is doing fine.

  Barack Obama

  Private Sector

  "Obama: Private Sector is “Doing Fine” by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

  June Allyson

  Fun, Excitement, Film

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• The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Done, Mit

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• Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

  Harper Lee

  Aunt, Land, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

  Henry Mayhew

  Heart, Fire, Coal

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• If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

  Guy Forget

  Winning, Years, Trying

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