Finest Quotes

491 Finest quotes by 393 unique authors

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always… — John Ruskin
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted. — Elbert Hubbard
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. — David Lloyd George
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:… — G. H. Hardy
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is… — Thomas More
I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful;… — W.C. Fields
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves ... — Robert Wyland
We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees. — Rudolf Hess
The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league… — Unknown Author
Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become… — Fred Bear
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding
The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence. — Charles F. Haanel
We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat… — George W. Bush
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being. — Alfred North Whitehead
...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the… — Albert Einstein
If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to… — Corey Taylor
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. — John Motson
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi
But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the… — Mark Twain
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will… — Sterling W Sill

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