Finer Quotes

217 quotes by 179 authors

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,â€ Flamel said quietly. â€œAnd the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,â€ he added,… — Michael Scott
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing… — Homer
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and… — Honore de Balzac
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped.… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Grow strong, my comrade â€¦ that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come… — Will Durant
Iâ€™m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, Iâ€™m the type of person who doesnâ€™t… — Haruki Murakami
Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if… — Shane Koyczan
Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in… — Steve Kluger
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his… — Leo Tolstoy
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. — Barbara Taylor Bradford
I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother. — Cassandra Clare
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously… — Knut Hamsun
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there. — Mikhail Lermontov
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers… — Stephen King
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or… — David Levithan
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of… — Gail Carriger
She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a… — Zelda Fitzgerald
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelingsâ€¦ — Mary MacLane
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say… — George Eliot

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