Fairly Quotes
774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness.…
— Edith Wharton
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more…
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for…
— George Polya
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Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so…
— Roger Bannister
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Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.
— Fujio Mitarai
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When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid…
— Elaine Stritch
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It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south…
— Graydon Carter
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your…
— Adam Lamberg
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I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams.
— Lynda Resnick
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the…
— Karen Horney
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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for…
— Dawn French
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When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly…
— George Smoot
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I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come…
— Harsha Bhogle
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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so…
— Brenda Laurel
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I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.
— Shohreh Aghdashloo
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I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour…
— Bitsie Tulloch
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and…
— J C Ryle
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What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people…
— Ernie Harwell
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I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.
— Kylie Minogue
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I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before…
— Sidney Poitier
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Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can…
— David Byrne
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Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight…
— Alice Dreger
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In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.
— Erin O'Connor
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More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would…
— James Vincent McMorrow
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