Finer Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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.

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

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.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

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

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

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.

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

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.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

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

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

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.

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.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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