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  • Conceit spoils the finest genius.

    Life   Conceited   Genius  
    1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.
  • 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.

  • The finest fury is the most controlled.

    Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

    Men   Thinking   Excited  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Karl Pearson (2011). “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, p.50, Cambridge University Press
  • Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

  • There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

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

  • 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.

    Beauty   Beautiful   Art  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America
  • If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

  • I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

  • The finest poetry was first experience.

    Poetry   Firsts   Finest  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics
  • Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

    Drug   Physicians   World  
  • 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.

    Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

  • Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

  • Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

    Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

    Iceland   Spain   World  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

    Heart   World   Tongue  
  • The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

    Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.
  • To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  • 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.

    Memories   Home   Lakes  
  • To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

    Fate   Men   Medicine  
    Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.38, New Directions Publishing
  • We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.

    Science   Two   Dancing  
    Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
  • 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.

    America   Larks   Height  
  • The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

    Ideas   Sacred   Example  
    Source: www.apologetics315.com
  • Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks
  • The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

    Running   Real   Home  
  • We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

    Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.190, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
  • 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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