Fine Quotes - Page 9

• A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Gentleman, Ugly

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• The best part of health is fine disposition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Disposition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Long, Hypocrisy, Champion

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• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

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• That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

  Nick Willis

  Sports, Sweet, Track

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• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Mistake, Design, Style

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• Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Science, Law, If There Is A God

  "The Anthropic Principle: Laws and Environments". Article in "The Anthropic Principle: Proceedings of the Second Venice Conference on Cosmology and Philosophy", book edited by F. Bertola and U. Curi, Cambridge University Press, p. 30, 1988.

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• In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Form, Gross

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

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• What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, States, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.861, Manonmani Publishers

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• I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

  Nicole Kidman

  Divorce, Thinking, Nightmare

  "Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman: Did They Connect Before Holmes Filed For Divorce?", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• 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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• 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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• The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

  Duke of Wellington

  Scum Of The Earth, History, Soldier

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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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• Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

  Cass Sunstein

  Gun, Views, Second Amendment

  "Founding Fathers vs. Today's Progressives" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2009.

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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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• Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

  Esther Williams

  Beautiful, Teenager, Teaching

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• God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Art, Moving, Unfinished Work

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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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• 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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• When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.

  Bob Ley

  Mind, Keith, One Thing

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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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