Quotes about Finest

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. Votes: 4

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. Votes: 4

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Votes: 4

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Votes: 4

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. Votes: 4

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Votes: 4

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Finest fur may cover toughest meat. Votes: 3

They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath. Votes: 3

A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end. Votes: 3

A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end. Votes: 3

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life. Votes: 3

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. Votes: 2

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. Votes: 2

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. Votes: 2

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. Votes: 2

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen. Votes: 2

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. Votes: 2

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. Votes: 2

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision! Votes: 2

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. Votes: 2

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met. Votes: 2

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. Votes: 2

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. Votes: 2

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for. Votes: 2

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know. Votes: 2

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. Votes: 2

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know. Votes: 2

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. Votes: 2

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Votes: 2

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Votes: 2

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times. Votes: 2

The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before. Votes: 2

A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. Votes: 2

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Votes: 2

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. Votes: 2

STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response to the limited edition colors so far speaks for itself - the fans want the opportunity to match their headphones to their personal style, and we definitely want to make sure to give them what they want. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Conceit spoils the finest genius. Votes: 0

The finest wits have their sediment. Votes: 0

The finest poetry was first experience. Votes: 0

The finest fury is the most controlled. Votes: 0

The finest pleasure is kindness to others. Votes: 0

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted. Votes: 0

The finest woman that ever walked the streets. Votes: 0

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves ... Votes: 0

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world. Votes: 0

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written. Votes: 0

To money, the finest linguist in the world! Votes: 0

The finest mode of transport known to man. Votes: 0

I don't like to sell my finest pieces. Votes: 0

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all Votes: 0

There is the finest line between data and evidence. Votes: 0

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Votes: 0

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating. Votes: 0

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature. Votes: 0

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. Votes: 0

The presence of God is the finest of rewards. Votes: 0

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. Votes: 0

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. Votes: 0

I always thought I was the finest thing around. Votes: 0

The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart. Votes: 0

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically. Votes: 0

The White House is the finest prison in the world. Votes: 0

Some of our finest work comes through service to others. Votes: 0

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. Votes: 0

A stunner"¦reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Votes: 0

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. Votes: 0

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. Votes: 0

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. Votes: 0

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action. Votes: 0

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. Votes: 0

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. Votes: 0

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy. Votes: 0

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world. Votes: 0

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person. Votes: 0

One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver. Votes: 0

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came Votes: 0

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Votes: 0

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other. Votes: 0

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest. Votes: 0

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend Votes: 0

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century. Votes: 0

If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal. Votes: 0

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. Votes: 0

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played. Votes: 0

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help, Votes: 0

Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business. Votes: 0

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Votes: 0

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. Votes: 0

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest. Votes: 0

We are at our finest when we take care of each other. Votes: 0

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it. Votes: 0

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet. Votes: 0

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit Votes: 0

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. Votes: 0

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. Votes: 0

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy. Votes: 0

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. Votes: 0

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. Votes: 0

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had. Votes: 0

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones. Votes: 0

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love Votes: 0

If our air forces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal Votes: 0

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. Votes: 0

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man. Votes: 0

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist. Votes: 0

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila. Votes: 0

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper. Votes: 0

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. Votes: 0

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done Votes: 0

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 0

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. Votes: 0

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline. Votes: 0

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. Votes: 0

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around Votes: 0

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again. Votes: 0

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness. Votes: 0

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. Votes: 0

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. Votes: 0

...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else. Votes: 0

Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day. Votes: 0

Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does! Votes: 0

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. Votes: 0

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours. Votes: 0

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. Votes: 0

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence. Votes: 0

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. Votes: 0

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna) Votes: 0

Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths Votes: 0

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one. Votes: 0

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. Votes: 0

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have. Votes: 0

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game. Votes: 0

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground. Votes: 0

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person. Votes: 0

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne Votes: 0

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving. Votes: 0

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. Votes: 0

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. Votes: 0

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Votes: 0

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their finest hour Votes: 0

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had. Votes: 0

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else. Votes: 0

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb. Votes: 0

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer. Votes: 0

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. Votes: 0

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. Votes: 0

Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts? Votes: 0

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. Votes: 0

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. Votes: 0

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available. Votes: 0

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other. Votes: 0

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. Votes: 0

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace. Votes: 0

I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time. Votes: 0

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. Votes: 0

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold. Votes: 0

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way. Votes: 0

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours. Votes: 0

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. Votes: 0

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. Votes: 0

Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. Votes: 0

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived. Votes: 0

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you. Votes: 0

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest. Votes: 0

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice. Votes: 0

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. Votes: 0

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country. Votes: 0

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists, Votes: 0

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. Votes: 0

A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have. Votes: 0

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such. Votes: 0

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it. Votes: 0

You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home. Votes: 0

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. Votes: 0

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots Votes: 0

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. Votes: 0

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. Votes: 0

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross. Votes: 0

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens. Votes: 0

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning. Votes: 0

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. Votes: 0

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited. Votes: 0

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.' Votes: 0

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus. Votes: 0

We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have. Votes: 0

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies. Votes: 0

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter. Votes: 0

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. Votes: 0

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system. Votes: 0

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. Votes: 0

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Votes: 0

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. Votes: 0

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. Votes: 0

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. Votes: 0

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. Votes: 0

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers. Votes: 0

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic. Votes: 0

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. Votes: 0

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not? Votes: 0

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. Votes: 0

Today is very For it's about a special birth For the very finest Dad That ever walked upon this Earth Votes: 0

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement. Votes: 0

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Votes: 0

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power. Votes: 0

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Votes: 0

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. Votes: 0

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. Votes: 0

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. Votes: 0

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. Votes: 0

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street. Votes: 0

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. Votes: 0

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado. Votes: 0

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. Votes: 0

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you. Votes: 0

You are the forward edge of life's advancement; in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance. Votes: 0

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Votes: 0

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. Votes: 0

Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed Votes: 0

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them. Votes: 0

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. Votes: 0

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York. Votes: 0

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. Votes: 0

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour. Votes: 0

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things. Votes: 0

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. Votes: 0

Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. Votes: 0

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. Votes: 0

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. Votes: 0

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. Votes: 0

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. Votes: 0

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. Votes: 0

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career. Votes: 0

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. Votes: 0

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward. Votes: 0

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention Votes: 0

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't. Votes: 0

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. Votes: 0

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves. Votes: 0

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space Votes: 0

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. Votes: 0

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it. Votes: 0

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. Votes: 0

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. Votes: 0

He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar. Votes: 0

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. Votes: 0

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. Votes: 0

Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg." Votes: 0

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired. Votes: 0

We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees. Votes: 0

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. Votes: 0

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer. Votes: 0

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space. Votes: 0

Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly. Votes: 0

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing. Votes: 0

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories. Votes: 0

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being. Votes: 0

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. Votes: 0

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth. Votes: 0

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest. Votes: 0

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. Votes: 0

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. Votes: 0

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time. Votes: 0

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. Votes: 0

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers. Votes: 0

The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it Votes: 0

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! Votes: 0

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. Votes: 0

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. Votes: 0

I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known. Votes: 0

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed. Votes: 0

Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years. Votes: 0

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River]. Votes: 0

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. Votes: 0

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence. Votes: 0

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts. Votes: 0

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. Votes: 0

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is. Votes: 0

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. Votes: 0

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least. Votes: 0

The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. Votes: 0

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness. Votes: 0

Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic. Votes: 0

To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music. Votes: 0

Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value. Votes: 0

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level. Votes: 0

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable. Votes: 0

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself. Votes: 0

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech. Votes: 0

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical. Votes: 0

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you. Votes: 0

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. Votes: 0

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.") Votes: 0

Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world. Votes: 0

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear. Votes: 0

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life. Votes: 0

I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act. Votes: 0

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little. Votes: 0

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost. Votes: 0

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. Votes: 0

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. Votes: 0

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. Votes: 0

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress. Votes: 0

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass. Votes: 0

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. Votes: 0

For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily solutions. " Apply the Who to the What. Votes: 0

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes. Votes: 0

The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with. Votes: 0

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms. Votes: 0

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. Votes: 0

We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose. Votes: 0

I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made. Votes: 0

Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs. Votes: 0

While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. Votes: 0

Lissa's guardians- she had a fleet now- walked with her. I was among them, wearing my finest black and white, including the red collar marking me as a royal guardian. Votes: 0

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony. Votes: 0

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is. Votes: 0

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them. Votes: 0

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time. Votes: 0

One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy. Votes: 0

Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis. Votes: 0

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni. Votes: 0

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks. Votes: 0

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work. Votes: 0

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you? Votes: 0

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer. Votes: 0

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. Votes: 0

Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at. Votes: 0

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these. Votes: 0

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God. Votes: 0

When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us. Votes: 0

[People] are tired of looking at what happens, they are tired of us having our... let's say finest and brightest not being involved in the most important decisions, and being someplace else. Votes: 0

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate. Votes: 0

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. Votes: 0

The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make. Votes: 0

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research. Votes: 0

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded. Votes: 0

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. Votes: 0

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there. Votes: 0

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. Votes: 0

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort. Votes: 0

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air. Votes: 0

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date. Votes: 0

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas. Votes: 0

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway. Votes: 0

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour. Votes: 0

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? Votes: 0

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out. Votes: 0

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? Votes: 0

I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world. Votes: 0

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity. Votes: 0

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable. Votes: 0

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable. Votes: 0

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 0

A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing. Votes: 0

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' Votes: 0

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. Votes: 0

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns. Votes: 0

I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players Votes: 0

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon. Votes: 0