Fairs Quotes

• It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

  William Carlos Williams

  Sweaters, Brown, Not Fair

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Needs, Alive

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• I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

  Danica Patrick

  Cheer, Weekend, Play

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• The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Sex, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

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• Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Imagination, Optimism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

  Ronald Reagan

  Drunk, Sailor, Congress

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• One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.

  Donald T. Regan

  Offering, United States, Bills

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• Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Boys, Two, Justice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Government, Support

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• I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Opportunity, Squares

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.177, Cornell University Press

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• I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Giving, Chance

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• I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

  Whitney Houston

  Brother, Children, Husband

  "Houston praises fans, bashes rumors as new album releases" by Mark Scheerer, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1998.

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• Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.

  Jethro Tull

  Song, Wind, Giving

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• I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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• We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

  Suzy Kassem

  Ignorance, Voice, Justice

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that.

  Ralph McTell

  Islands, Scotland, Trying

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• The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.

  David Roediger

  Keys, Color, Southern

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Winning, Past, Our World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is always a most delightful moment for me when people contact me via mail or approach me at game fairs and thank me for the many enjoyable hours I have brought them with my games.

  Klaus Teuber

  Games, People, Mail

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• Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghettoes and basketball is a great schoolyard game. You don't need a lot of space or equipment and you can adapt it to how many players you have.

  Dolph Schayes

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

  Liz Phair

  Guitar, Play, People

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• All's fair if you have a really good attorney.

  Norm Crosby

  Attorney, Ifs

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• Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Weather, San Francisco

  Attributed in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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