Finer Quotes

217 quotes by 179 authors

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and… — Douglas Coupland
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? — Jane Austen
The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a… — Richelle Mead
I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at… — Adolf Hitler
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled… — Rex Stout
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the… — Frederic Bastiat
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? — Salman Rushdie
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such… — Thomas Hardy
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of… — Henry David Thoreau
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge — William Wordsworth
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world… — Daphne du Maurier
I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am… — Walt Whitman
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you… — Jeannette Walls
Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once… — Kenny Chesney

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