Finer Quotes

You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. (Woodrow Wilson)
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. View quote
Aristotle
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. View quote
Sam Rayburn
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. View quote
Willa Cather
I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh. View quote
Roscoe Arbuckle
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. View quote
Daniel De Leon
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. View quote
Coretta Scott King
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. (John Keats)
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. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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. View quote
Vash Young
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. View quote
Karen Blixen
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Separation isn't time or distance it's the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. View quote
Cesare Pavese
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. (Mercedes Lackey)
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun. View quote
Greg Bear
Books are a finer world within the world. View quote
Alexander Smith
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? View quote
Jane Austen