Fairly Good Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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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
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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
— Hilaire Belloc
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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
— Mark Twain
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My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the…
— Barack Obama
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I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too…
— Al Kaline
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Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try…
— Angela Cartwright
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business…
— Alan Greenspan
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If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
— Knute Nelson
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I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the…
— Henning Mankell
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America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft…
— Thomas McGuane
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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a…
— Vince Cable
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But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
— Orison Swett Marden
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I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
— James McAvoy
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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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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’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.†“I would think the…
— Julia Quinn
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