Finest Moments Quotes

• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

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  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration   Heart   Past  

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• 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.

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  Corey Taylor

  Memorable   Joy   Feelings  

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• Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

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  J. K. Rowling

  Dream   Hands   Perfect  

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• 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.

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  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational   Happiness   Spiritual  

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• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

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  Bela Karolyi

  Success   Sports   Lying  

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• Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?

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  Joss Whedon

  Lying   Sleep   Passion  

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997-2003.

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

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  Doug Scott

  Climbing   Self   Ordinary  

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• Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

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  Joss Whedon

  Life   Hurt   Peace  

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Passion)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• 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.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Men   Errors   May  

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.67, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

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  George W. Bush

  Land   Justice   People  

  George W. Bush's speech at 53rd Anniversary of National Day of Prayer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 6, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Arlene Francis

  Thinking   Over You   Chance  

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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