Finest Quotes - Page 15

• What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Longing, Virtue

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• When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. I love you Michael.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Kings, Stars, Love You

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• ... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Way, Photographer, Journalist

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• Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Lying, Light, Hands

  Christina Hoff Sommers (1995). “Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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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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• An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Achievement, Diaspora, Magnificent

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• Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Cutting, Past, Shapes

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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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• It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places in which to spend the noon., commanding the finest views, because commonly there is no water there, or you cannot get there with your horse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Horse, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Heart, Our Generation

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• You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the history of this Church. I believe it. You know the gospel better. You come to seminary and you learn about the things of the Lord here. You know more about the gospel than those of my generation at your age did without any question. I am satisfied of that. Furthermore, you are intrinsically better. You are wonderful young people!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Our Generation, People

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• I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Our Generation, Doubt

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as if God had sent in a team of the world's finest artists overnight-and I was privy to the opening day of his spectacle. As I slowly drove along this festive row, leaves danced in the air and brushed against my windshield. It seemed as if I had landed in Oz. I was strongly tempted to get out and clap at God's imagination.

  Sheila Walsh

  Beauty, Team, Fall

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• Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

  Julian Sands

  Thinking, Magic, Acting

  "The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. August 3, 2009.

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• It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Two, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4042, Delphi Classics

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• What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Kings, Thinking, Rocks

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• Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

  Ann Petry

  Men, Vegetables, Clothes

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• The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

  Willa Cather

  Feelings, Sincerity, Reader

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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• The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Want, Violence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.331

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