Fairs Quotes - Page 32

• The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

  Veronica Roth

  Dirty, People, Giving

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• Life isn’t fair." I said. "It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Jobs, Taken, Fighting

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• Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

  Ovid

  Anger, Men, Becoming

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• Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

  Og Mandino

  Positive, Pain, Attitude

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.79, Bantam

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• Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

  Edmund Waller

  Sweet, Time, Rose

  "Go, Lovely Rose!" l. 1 (1645)

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• But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Art, Past

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
  Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
  Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
  Rot and consume themselves in little time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Flower, Use

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 27, 2015

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• Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Men, Hair

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

  John M. Lyle

  Birthday, Wrinkles, Color

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• Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts.
  Open your heart,
  Untie the ribbons,
  and enjoy the contents!
  Were earth a thousand times as fair
  Beset with gold and jewels rare
  She yet were far too poor to be
  A narrow cradle,
  Lord, for Thee.

  Martin Luther

  Christmas, Heart, Holiday

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• This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Uplifting, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

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• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspiring, Stars, School

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.31, Crown/Archetype

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• Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Song, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.42, Editora Dracaena

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• See how the World its Veterans rewards!
  A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;
  Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
  Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;
  A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;
  Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Passion, Age

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.223

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• Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!
  Ye shall grow a part
  Of the laughing Sea;
  Of the moaning heart
  Of the glittered wave
  Of the sun-gleam's dart
  In the ocean-grave.
  Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
  For that I love
  Thy heart of stone!
  From the heights above
  To the depths below,
  Where dread things move,
  
  There is naught can show
  A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown!
  Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Life, Ocean, Moving

  "The Dirge of the Sea". Poem by Voltairine de Cleyre, April 1891.

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• We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Giving, Grace

  Julian of Norwich (2010). “The Collected Works of Julian of Norwich”, p.109, Lulu.com

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• All's fair in love and war.

  Francis Edward Smedley

  Love, Life, Tattoo

  Francis Edward SMEDLEY (1854). “Frank Fairlegh; or scenes from the life of a private pupil. By F. E. Smedley. With illustrations ... by G. Cruikshank”, p.434

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• On a day - alack the day! -
  Love, whose month is ever May,
  Spied a blossom passing fair
  Playing in the wanton air

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Air, May

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.335

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• No days such honored days as these! While yet
  Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
  For some fair thing which should forever bide
  On earth, her beauteous memory to set
  In fitting frame that no age could forget,
  Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
  And leave it there, eternally allied
  To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Memories, Spring, Flower

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Calendar Of Sonnets: April”

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• Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
  To-day the glint of green is there;
  Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
  I know no thing so wondrous fair,
  No miracle so strangely rare.
  I wonder what will next be there!

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Spring, Yesterday, Miracle

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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• Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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