Finely Quotes

84 quotes by 74 authors

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea… — John Polkinghorne
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old… — William Crawford Williamson
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please… — John Selden
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. — Albert Einstein
CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs youâ€™ll have more than you need to fall… — Brett Hestla
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. — Gregg Braden
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their… — Alcaeus
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are… — Leslie Morgan Steiner
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. — Charles Churchill
For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in… — Scott Bedbury
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it,… — Alan Watts
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Mark Bostridge
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in… — Hugh Mackay
Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with… — William Shakespeare
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making… — Deborah Harkness
I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the… — Fred Bear

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