Finer Quotes

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Books are a finer world within the world.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.