Fine Quotes - Page 14

• Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

  George Henry Borrow

  Dog, Youth, Mines

  'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 92

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Elephants, Growth

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• Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

  George Eliot

  Christmas, Fashion, Hair

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.179, George Eliot

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Ego, Pests

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• I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

  Harlan Ellison

  Girl, Women, Reading

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

  Lena Dunham

  Play, Long, Feminist

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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• The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Simple, Thinking, Evil

  Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Art, College, Degrees

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• The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Wine, Glasses, Differences

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• I want to tell everyone, 'You're perfectly fine right now.' No one told me that.. I hope people can think, 'I'm great the way I am. I'm doing fine. Even if I can't reach the criteria of success measured and necessitated by society, even if I'm weeded out, I'm beautiful the way I am. I'm pretty, I'm perfectly fine without having to think about other people's opinions and stereotypes.'

  Lee Hyori

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.

  Eustace Mullins

  Years, Ideas, Titles

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• Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

  Curnonsky

  Cooking, Taste

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• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  Curnonsky

  Honor, Meals, Sauce

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• There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Weakness, Done

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• I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

  Avi Rubin

  Giving, Wrong Answers, Machines

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• God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is God must be one of those smells that beguile and inebriate the mind, who like a fine drunken horse of water the heart now rides, galloping wild in every direction like a river flooding right through the topsoil of your youth, cutting and eroding a groove that will be your life, a canyon sunk deep into the virgin plains and unsawn forests of your early days.

  Martin Prechtel

  Horse, Spring, Heart

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• Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

  Mu Xin

  Intelligent, Library, Firsts

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• It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

  Tim Tharp

  Tomorrow, Live In The Now, Best Things

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
  ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing,
  great things are possible to you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Ambition, Soul, Longing

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• Whatever God wants is fine by me. . . . I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty

  Scatman John

  Want

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

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• Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

  Joan Collins

  Kissing, Men, Smoking

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• We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

  Neil Cavuto

  Smile, Teaching, Kids

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• All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

  Stacy London

  Gold, Looks, Purpose

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• Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

  Annie Proulx

  Rain, Hair, Rocks

  Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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