Finest Quotes - Page 26

• One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

  Daniel Inouye

  Army, Discipline, Soldier

  "Congress bids farewell to influential lawmakers", www.foxnews.com.

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• The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Thinking, Littles

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.236, Transaction Publishers

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• Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Trust No One, Sight

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.189, Discovery House

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• If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

  Blake Shelton

  Dream, Would Be, Hours

  Song: Mine Would Be You, 2013

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• Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Envy, Design, Democracy

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• A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

  Carolyn Forche

  Writing, Done, Pieces

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• Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Accomplishment, Gains

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.308

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• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

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• Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Justice, Molecules

  "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Laughter, Reality

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Men, Color

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.48, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

  Naveen Jain

  Humility, Successful, Leader

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• Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

  Terry Eagleton

  Brave, Adventurous, Contradiction

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