Finer Quotes

217 quotes by 179 authors

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… — Mark Twain
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different. — Jane Addams
Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is… — Swami Vivekananda
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that… — Mark Twain
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter… — Oscar Wilde
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. — Iggy Azalea
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea,… — Amos Alonzo Stagg
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What… — Alexander Pope
I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds. — Russell Conwell
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,… — Edna Ferber
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man… — Alexander Berkman
Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be,… — Richard Griffiths
How much finer things are in composition than alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between… — Diana Trilling

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