Fairly Quotes

774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got… — Howard Nemerov
Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood… — L. Ron Hubbard
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most,… — William Styron
I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this… — Lindsay Davenport
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one - a country… — Jack Layton
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure… — Leon Trotsky
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The dictionary meaning is… — Ken Wilber
Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to… — Aleister Crowley
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should… — Bennie Thompson
That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it? — Eddie Izzard
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. — Keith Gessen
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and… — Ann M. Martin
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy… — Thomas Huxley
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the… — Scott Lynch
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. — Alma Gluck
I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly… — Jimmy Nail
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on. — Marie Windsor
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may… — Stewart Dalzell
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new… — William Henry Chamberlin
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and… — Janet Burroway
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of… — Keith Devlin
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. — Stanley Schmidt

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