Fairly Quotes
774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors
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When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as…
— Max Planck
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The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting…
— John Muir
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A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that,…
— Eugene O'Neill
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When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
— Walter Cronkite
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I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget…
— Alfie Kohn
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I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly…
— Guy Pearce
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Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody…
— Barack Obama
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It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of…
— Todd Rundgren
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If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
— David Hare
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For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the…
— Alain Resnais
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I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory…
— Tim Heidecker
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If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident…
— Quentin Crisp
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The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
— Loretta Lynch
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The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original…
— Vincent Canby
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though…
— George H. W. Bush
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I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man…
— C.S. Lewis
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I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal…
— John Dos Passos
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I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my…
— Carly Fiorina
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When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time,"…
— Stephen Hawking
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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
— Neil Gaiman
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I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted…
— Henry Louis Gates
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If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
— Newt Gingrich
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I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.
— Heather Graham
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