Finer Quotes

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.

Books are a finer world within the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

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.

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 finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

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.

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.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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