Finest Quotes - Page 9

• You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home.

  John Candy

  Home, Men, Lines

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• The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

  Gene Kelly

  America, Limits, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

  Kelly Rowland

  People, Feel Good, Stories

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• Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

  William Kent Krueger

  Evil, Understanding, Wish

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• I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players

  John Salathe

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.

  Karl Blind

  Beauty, Self, Expression

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• Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nature

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.64

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• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Miracle, Extravagance

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• THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to the human experience. Our finest achievements are possible when people come together to work for a common cause. School spirit, the rightful pride we feel in our community, our heritage, our religion, and our families, all come from the value we place on belonging to a group.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  School, Character, Pride

  Rosalind Wiseman (2013). “Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World”, p.37, Harmony

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• If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

  Edward Tufte

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

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• Today is very
  For it's about a special birth
  For the very finest Dad
  That ever walked upon this Earth

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Special, Earth

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Wall, Lying, Real

  "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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• There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Greatness, Special

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• It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Hands, Achievement

  Karl Pearson (2011). “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Goal, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, War, Japan

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• If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

  Denis Diderot

  Learning, Games, Skills

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Laughter, Sleep, Laughing

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Grateful, Heart

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• This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

  Paolo Uccello

  Air, Giving, Genius

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• The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

  James McBride

  Jesus, Men, Frogs

  James McBride (2006). “The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Penguin

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• Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.502, Classic Books Company

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• I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Lakes, Dust

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• 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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