Finest Quotes - Page 12

• The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Streets

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• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

  Bela Karolyi

  Success, Sports, Lying

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• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, Labels

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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• The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.

  John Knox

  Men, Long Ago, Evil

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• Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

  Max Lucado

  Storm, Doe, Attention

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• We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
  Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Country, Business

  "Jimmy Carter on The American Dream". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Freedom, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

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• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Life, Peace, Broken

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• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• The finest poetry was first experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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• Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Engagement, Science And Religion

  "After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration". Book by Peter Barker, Cecil G. Shugart (p. 179), 1981.

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• The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Real, Real Friends, Can Do

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.65, The Floating Press

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• Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

  Melody Beattie

  Love, Appreciation, Healing

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• So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Science, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

  John Ruskin

  Patience, Perseverance, Talking

  John Ruskin (1905). “Sesame and Lilies; The Ethics of the Dust; The Crown of Wild Olive: With Letters on Public Affairs, 1859-1866”

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• Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Style, Mind, Lasts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• ...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Men, Strive

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

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• If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Joy, Feelings

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• The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

  Anatole France

  Writing, Sound, World

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• Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

  John Motson

  Football, Victory, Minutes

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• A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Friendship, Meaningful

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Letters”

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• Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Land, Ignorant

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.146, Hackett Publishing

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