Our Finest Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
— Elbert Hubbard
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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
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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
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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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Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the…
— Sarah Palin
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THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to the human experience.…
— Rosalind Wiseman
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A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I…
— Ian Wooldridge
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We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later…
— Lionel Trilling
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John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists…
— Ron Rash
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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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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only…
— M. Scott Peck
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Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...…
— Joss Whedon
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Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master…
— Henry Miller
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It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of…
— Andre Agassi
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Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and…
— Gary Shteyngart
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I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.
— Honeysuckle Weeks
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Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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To do so is to fulfill our finest nature, to do less is to lose our chance to experience the full meaning of being alive.
— Edwin Mamerto
Who Wrote These Our Finest Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Our Finest Quotes as follows: