Finest Quotes - Page 5

• This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

  Paolo Uccello

  Air, Giving, Genius

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• Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Couple, Two

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• The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

  James McBride

  Jesus, Men, Frogs

  James McBride (2006). “The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Penguin

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• Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Country, Reading, Fiction

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Wall, Lying, Real

  "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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• Today is very
  For it's about a special birth
  For the very finest Dad
  That ever walked upon this Earth

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Special, Earth

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• The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  Adrian Belew

  Lonely, Luxury, Band

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• "Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

  Michio Kaku

  Mother, Children, Simple

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Blow, Cities

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• Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

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• The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Landscape, Inns

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• It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.

  Karl Blind

  Beauty, Self, Expression

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• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Miracle, Extravagance

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• David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "David Beckham exits as gracefully as one of his arcing crosses" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to the human experience. Our finest achievements are possible when people come together to work for a common cause. School spirit, the rightful pride we feel in our community, our heritage, our religion, and our families, all come from the value we place on belonging to a group.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  School, Character, Pride

  Rosalind Wiseman (2013). “Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World”, p.37, Harmony

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• If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

  Edward Tufte

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

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• I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Envy, Bird

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• Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.

  Daniel Starch

  Class, Example, Use

  Daniel Starch (1914). “Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique”

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• To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Country, Children, Hypocrite

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• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  Doris Day

  Jobs, Nice, Believe

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• The finest mode of transport known to man.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Men, Cycling, Transport

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• The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

  Alexander Pope

  Government, Order, Pieces

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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