Finest Quotes - Page 9

• Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

  Sarah Dessen

  Lifestyle, Terrible, Buddy

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• There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.

  Tom Jones

  Integrity, Voice, Ambassadors

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• Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Today, Becoming

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• The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Trying, Quality

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• From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.

  Howard Bloom

  War, Hate, Commitment

  "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History". Book by Howard Bloom, 1997.

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• Paul Scholes was the jewel in the crown, the first name on the teamsheet and unquestionably one of the finest England players of the age. He flourished at once in the international arena, which didn't surprise me given his fabulous all-round attributes. He had almost everything - talent, intelligence, courage. His only blemish, which he never really shook off, was his tackling. There was always the chance of that red mist coming down. Overall, though, Paul was a wonderful player and he's a lovely lad, a credit to his club and to himself.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Player, Jewels, Names

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• I would describe our band "Paper Walls' growth as the natural evolution for anyone the age of 25 to 27, but with "Paper Walls' we focused on the best of what Yellowcard had to offer from our previous work. Meaning we took the energy we had from Ocean Avenue and blended that with that sharp rock edge and all the different sonic evolutions we have on "Lights and Sounds', and we basically mashed them together. So what we have on "Paper Walls' is basically the finest Yellowcard sounds we have to offer.

  Sean Mackin

  Ocean, Growth, Age

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• The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Hands, Giving

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.91

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• Lean forward into your life...
  catch the best bits and the finest wind.
  Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit
  and see how dramatically that small lean
  can change your life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Wind, Flight, Changing Your Life

  Radmacher, Mary Anne (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live with Intention, and Play with Abandon”, p.2, Conari Press

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• Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Flower, Civilization, Important

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• The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

  Smiley Blanton

  Children, Parent, Lessons

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• What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Kings, Thinking, Rocks

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• You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single inspiration of air. You must walk so gently as to hear the finest sounds, the faculties being in repose. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Eye, Air

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• An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

  Fanny Kemble

  Dream, Memories, Men

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• Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

  Ann Petry

  Men, Vegetables, Clothes

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• The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

  Willa Cather

  Feelings, Sincerity, Reader

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• The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Degrees, Pieces

  "Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry". Book by Suzanne Lammers, 1986.

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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• The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Want, Violence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.331

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• A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Men, Example

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.305

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• When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Thinking, Excited

  Source: collider.com

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• The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.

  William G. Tapply

  Memories, Home, Lakes

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• Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, War, Years

  "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Struggle, Taken, Years

  "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

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• I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

  Richard Matheson

  Dream, Book, Thinking

  "ED GORMAN CALLING: We Talk to Richard Matheson". www.mysteryfile.com.

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