Finer Quotes

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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.

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.

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.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Books are a finer world within the world.

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.

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.