Finest Quotes

491 Finest quotes by 393 unique authors

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart. — Jean de La Fontaine
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
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
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. — Alexander Pope
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
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom
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
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch
I don't like to sell my finest pieces. — Beatrice Wood
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
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them. — Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
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
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
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
George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have. — Max Greenfield
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
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
Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again. — Tom Paxton

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