Finest Quotes - Page 25

• The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

  Herb Kohl

  Rights, Branches, Sides

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

  Michael Savage

  Chinese, Speech, Study

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• The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Thinking, Littles

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.236, Transaction Publishers

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• One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

  Daniel Inouye

  Army, Discipline, Soldier

  "Congress bids farewell to influential lawmakers", www.foxnews.com.

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• America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

  Sarah Palin

  Military, Apology, Men

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• The White House is the finest prison in the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  White, House, World

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• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Circus, Unexpected, Pleasure

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Justice, Molecules

  "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

  David Lloyd George

  Done, Things Done, Eloquence

  Speech at Paris Peace Conference, 18 Jan. 1919, in The Times 20 Jan. 1919

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  Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

  Sam Houston

  Blessed, Texas, Vision

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1824-1854”

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• Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

  Chris Cortez

  Memories, Nice, Order

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• Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Envy, Design, Democracy

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• Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Accomplishment, Gains

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.308

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• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Opportunity, Men

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• In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Reading, Home, Moon

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• The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Rose, Thorns, Bears

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

  Blake Shelton

  Dream, Would Be, Hours

  Song: Mine Would Be You, 2013

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• There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Tasks, Shame

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• The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Mets, Young

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• Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Expression, Play

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• The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.

  Justus von Liebig

  Men, Order, Ideas

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• The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

  Frank Gehry

  Saint, Pieces, Architecture

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Novel, Written

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• We want experts, our finest people. We don't want people that are B level, C level, D level. We have to get our absolute best and the recommendations have to be a combination of defensive technologies tailored to specific agencies and every other discipline involved.

  Donald Trump

  Technology, Agency, Discipline

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have.

  Donald Trump

  Military, People, Care

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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