Fine Quotes - Page 9

• In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Form, Gross

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

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• What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, States, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.861, Manonmani Publishers

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• Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Form, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2215, Manonmani Publishers

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• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  Zoë Heller

  Fall, Fighting, Lost Ones

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• The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Intelligent, Player, Games

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• I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

  Nicole Kidman

  Divorce, Thinking, Nightmare

  "Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman: Did They Connect Before Holmes Filed For Divorce?", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

  George Henry Borrow

  Dog, Youth, Mines

  'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 92

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Elephants, Growth

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• Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

  George Eliot

  Christmas, Fashion, Hair

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.179, George Eliot

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• The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Learning, Intelligent, Player

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Ego, Pests

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• I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

  Harlan Ellison

  Girl, Women, Reading

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

  Duke of Wellington

  Scum Of The Earth, History, Soldier

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• Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

  Lena Dunham

  Play, Long, Feminist

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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• Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

  Cass Sunstein

  Gun, Views, Second Amendment

  "Founding Fathers vs. Today's Progressives" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2009.

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• You could carry your burdens lightly or with great effort. You could worry about tomorrow or not. You could imagine horrible fates or garland-filled tomorrows. None of it mattered as long as you moved, as long as you did something. Asking why was fine, but it wasn't action. Nothing brought the rewards of moving, of running. Sometimes you just do things.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Moving, Fate

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.94, A&C Black

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• It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.

  Jerry Lawler

  Earth, Want, Faces

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• The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Simple, Thinking, Evil

  Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Art, College, Degrees

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• Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

  Esther Williams

  Beautiful, Teenager, Teaching

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• The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Wine, Glasses, Differences

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• I want to tell everyone, 'You're perfectly fine right now.' No one told me that.. I hope people can think, 'I'm great the way I am. I'm doing fine. Even if I can't reach the criteria of success measured and necessitated by society, even if I'm weeded out, I'm beautiful the way I am. I'm pretty, I'm perfectly fine without having to think about other people's opinions and stereotypes.'

  Lee Hyori

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Art, Moving, Unfinished Work

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• Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.

  Eustace Mullins

  Years, Ideas, Titles

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• Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

  Curnonsky

  Cooking, Taste

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