Finest Quotes - Page 25

• You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Beautiful, Wedding

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• Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

  Havelock Ellis

  May, Pleasure, Used

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier

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• We want experts, our finest people. We don't want people that are B level, C level, D level. We have to get our absolute best and the recommendations have to be a combination of defensive technologies tailored to specific agencies and every other discipline involved.

  Donald Trump

  Technology, Agency, Discipline

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Circus, Unexpected, Pleasure

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

  Lord Acton

  Freedom, Passion, Opportunity

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• The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Novel, Written

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• It [Doral] is 800 acres in the middle of Miami. If you look at the ballroom, that was brand-new ballroom that didn`t exist. And it`s, you know, one of the great places on earth. We had a construction crew here of 1,600 people. We rebuilt the whole place in about 14 months. We did it under budget, although I did increase the scope of the work, because we decided to use the finest marbles.

  Donald Trump

  People, Looks, Use

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Couple, Mean, Passion

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create constancy of purpose." In his professional career, Walt's major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.

  Bill Capodagli

  Passion, Careers, Long

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have.

  Donald Trump

  Military, People, Care

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.

  Justus von Liebig

  Men, Order, Ideas

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• The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

  Frank Gehry

  Saint, Pieces, Architecture

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Expression, Play

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• Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

  Chris Cortez

  Memories, Nice, Order

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• The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Art, Moving

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• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

  David Lloyd George

  Done, Things Done, Eloquence

  Speech at Paris Peace Conference, 18 Jan. 1919, in The Times 20 Jan. 1919

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  Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

  Sam Houston

  Blessed, Texas, Vision

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1824-1854”

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• America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

  Sarah Palin

  Military, Apology, Men

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Reading, Home, Moon

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• The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Rose, Thorns, Bears

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• The White House is the finest prison in the world.

  Harry S. Truman

  White, House, World

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• There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Tasks, Shame

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• The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Mets, Young

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• The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

  Irving Stone

  Love, Romance, Stories

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• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Opportunity, Men

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