Finest Quotes - Page 22

• The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term 'greatness.'

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Morning, Believe, Greatness

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

  Edward Abbey

  Sacrifice, Laughing, Nuance

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

  Howard Hughes

  Men, World, Pilots

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• The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, People, Theatre

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cities, Together, Four

  1724-7 Of Glasgow. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter 12.

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• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  Sarah MacLean

  Stars, Eye, Loving Life

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• Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

  Irving Stone

  Inspirational, Love Is, People

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• I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

  Ani DiFranco

  Army, Mediocrity, Hours

  Song: Not So Soft

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• It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Sarcasm, Mind

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 157, 1799.

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• Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, --the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Mean, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

  Alexander Pope

  Mind, Mental Illness, Metals

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.311

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• My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Albums, Way

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• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  Daniel Hannan

  Islands, Museums, Gold

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• Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

  Tom Paxton

  Men, Leader, Politics

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• When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

  Bob Gibson

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

  Roy Clarke

  School, Kids, Player

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• George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

  Max Greenfield

  Saint, Actors

  "Max Greenfield on his current role on New Girl and his Veronica Mars history". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Real, Flower, Character

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• The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Religious, Humorous

  George Mikes (1969). “The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow”

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Family, Children, Absence

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

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• On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

  Thornton Wilder

  Friday, July, Bridges

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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