Fine Quotes - Page 3

• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Fine Words, Vices

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117

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• New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

  Neil Kinnock

  Loyalty, Political, Quality

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• There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

  Paul Davies

  Powerful, Science, If There Is A God

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• Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

  Charles MacArthur

  Travel, Adventure, Men

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• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  William Styron

  Pain, Writing, Feelings

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Political, Skins

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• The private sector is doing fine.

  Barack Obama

  Private Sector

  "Obama: Private Sector is “Doing Fine” by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

  June Allyson

  Fun, Excitement, Film

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• The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Done, Mit

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• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

  William Shenstone

  People, Envy, Reason

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.141

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• Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cloning, Made, Should

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• It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

  Georges Bernanos

  Pride, Order, Excellence

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.224, Da Capo Press

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• There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

  Steven Spielberg

  Responsibility, Lines, Taste

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• Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

  Abigail Adams

  Daughter, Mother, Female Empowerment

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.419

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• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Hands, Strings, Attacking

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• My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

  John Bonham

  Ukulele, Nerves, Gigs

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• After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

  George Clooney

  Kids, Vasectomy, Pediatrician

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• Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Writing, Editing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Garden, Expression

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Stupid, Men

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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• It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

  Moliere

  Love, Thinking, Joy

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• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Golf, Worry

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