Finest Quotes

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

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.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.