Finest Quotes - Page 10

• Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Intuition, Excellence, Intellectual

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• You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

  Julia Cameron

  Notebook, Fruit, Firsts

  Julia Cameron, Emma Lively (2012). “The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough"”, p.17, Penguin

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• I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Jewels, Presidential

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1931, Best Books on

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• The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

  Ernest Newman

  Play, Voice, Mind

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• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  Doris Day

  Jobs, Nice, Believe

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• If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Goal, Air Power

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Light, Illumination

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• I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, America, Glasses

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• A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

  Walter Pater

  Dramatic Life, Numbers, Pulse

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• The finest mode of transport known to man.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Men, Cycling, Transport

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• The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

  John Lyly

  Blunt, Made, Edges

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.47

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• [On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

  David Hilbert

  Discovery, Achievement, Intellectual

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• In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pain, Giving, Together

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• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, Race, Giving

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result, he will find it necessary not merely to make use of the freshest and finest goods, but also to exercise the most scrupulous care in their preparation, for, in cooking, care is half the battle.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Exercise, Order, Cooking

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• A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.

  James Rollins

  Toms

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• Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner:  a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline.  Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today.  It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine.

  James Rollins

  Blow, Today, Lists

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• The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Government, Organization

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

  Steven Pressfield

  Succeed, Culture, Pay

  "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2002.

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• Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Memories

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

  Denis Hayes

  Warning, World, Scientist

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• Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, World, Creatures

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.69, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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