Fairly Quotes

774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those… — C.S. Lewis
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you… — Daniel Handler
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way… — Stephen King
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to… — Stephen Hawking
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good… — Nicholas Sparks
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness… — Wendell Berry
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold… — Christopher Paolini
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their… — Paulo Coelho
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a… — Benjamin Hoff
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity,… — Neil Gaiman
Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as… — John Muir
You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your… — Richard P. Feynman
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. — J D Salinger
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up,… — Cintra Wilson
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them… — David Sedaris
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… — Elizabeth Gaskell
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your… — Christopher Paolini
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable… — Kurt Vonnegut
Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look."… — Patrick Rothfuss
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound. — Susanna Kaysen

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