Finest Quotes
491 Finest quotes by 393 unique authors
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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make…
— Emma Goldman
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
— Alexander Pope
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that…
— Walter Savage Landor
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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
— Thornton Wilder
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
— Harold Bloom
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To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most…
— Mark Mothersbaugh
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
— Ernst Lubitsch
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
— Beatrice Wood
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I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products…
— Ann Macbeth
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Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can…
— Alexander Sutherland Neill
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A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It…
— George Mikes
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The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and…
— Bob Hope
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The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all…
— J. Reuben Clark
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George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
— Max Greenfield
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We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we…
— Roy Clarke
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When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can…
— Bob Gibson
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Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.
— Tom Paxton
Who Wrote These Finest Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 491 Finest Quotes, led by these top contributors: