Fairly Quotes
774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught…
— Evelyn Waugh
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One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-…
— E. M. Forster
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There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,…
— T.H. White
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I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it…
— Jim Butcher
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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery
— Cassandra Clare
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We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be…
— John Green
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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is…
— Mark Twain
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I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn’t. (Stryker)…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.
— Julia Quinn
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parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job,…
— Jodi Picoult
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I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the…
— Neil Gaiman
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Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I…
— Rick Riordan
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
— Jim Butcher
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I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.
— Tony Dungy
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I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination
— Derek Landy
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I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
— Nick Hornby
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Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.
— Lisa Kleypas
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There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was…
— Hermann Hesse
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If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you…
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
— William Saroyan
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