Finest Quotes - Page 17

• Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Memories

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Laughter, Sleep, Laughing

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pain, Giving, Together

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• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

  Ernest Newman

  Play, Voice, Mind

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• A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

  Walter Pater

  Dramatic Life, Numbers, Pulse

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

  Denis Hayes

  Warning, World, Scientist

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!

  Arlene Hunt

  Car, Black, Needs

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• Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Conceit, Armour

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• The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence.

  Jack Horkheimer

  Stars, Night, Thinking

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• Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

  Peter Tork

  Play, World, Want

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• You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

  Tasha Tudor

  Lying, Sunset, Fire

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• While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Country, Needs, Guarding

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• When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

  Barbara La Marr

  Heart, Cat, Unhappy

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• The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Devil, Doe

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.76

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• I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, America, Glasses

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• The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Jobs, War, Home

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• Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Light, Illumination

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• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Character, Discipline

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• Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

  Michael Flatley

  Struggle, Thinking, Favourite City

  "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

  Anne Rice

  Mind, Colour, Palette

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2914, Ballantine Books

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• For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Years, Feelings

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.437, A&C Black

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• Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Regret, Past

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue”

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• Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Air, Enjoy Life, Grace

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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