Finest Quotes
491 Finest quotes by 393 unique authors
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,…
— Aldous Huxley
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But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin…
— Sarah MacLean
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Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they…
— Irving Stone
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I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
— Ani DiFranco
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An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.
— Tori Amos
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They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the…
— Robert Muller
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America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the…
— Christopher Bond
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You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we…
— Boris Johnson
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Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your…
— Julia Child
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
— John Lyly
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
— David Hilbert
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An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
— Henry Louis Gates
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Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that…
— Larry Atchley Jr.
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I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for…
— Cecil Rhodes
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It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and…
— Phil Cornwell
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But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the history of this…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as…
— Sheila Walsh
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Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten…
— Julian Sands
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It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of…
— Hermann Hesse
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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Finest Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 491 Finest Quotes, led by these top contributors: