Finest Quotes
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
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.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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?
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.
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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.
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.
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
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.
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.
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.
Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.
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.
My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'
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.
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
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.
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.
We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.
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.
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.
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
...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.
I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
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!
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
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.