Finer Quotes

217 Finer quotes by 179 unique authors

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
The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” 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 … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come… — Will Durant
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’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

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