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Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way. — Angelo Dundee

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country. — Tom Hicks

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. — Haruki Murakami

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. — Virginia Woolf

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. — Adrian Belew

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.' — Ryan Reynolds

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have. — Max Greenfield

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finest poetry was first experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword. — Max Hawthorne

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest. — Tobias Hill

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time. — James Russell Lowell

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

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Thomas Carlyle

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! — Arlene Hunt

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you? — Lee Wulff

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around — James Taylor

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. — Sun Tzu

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. — Creighton Abrams

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. — Michael Caine

Conceit spoils the finest genius. — Louisa May Alcott

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space — Maggie Stiefvater

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry. — Sarah J. Maas

The exchange of a wife for a pair of gates( "The finest this side Paradise,") Brandwyn had written in his diary — Alan Bradley

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone

Our gifts, they are many:
We hop, fly, and crawl.
But kindness," he said,
Is the finest of all! — David Kirk

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited. — David Gordon Green

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

For how little have we lost, when the two finest things of all will accompany us wherever we go, universal nature and our individual virtue. — Seneca.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists, — Denis Hayes

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. — Smiley Blanton

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. — Voltaire

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The philosophy of life is the ultimate of finest thoughts that reflects yourself and your outlook about the world. — Debasish Mridha

The greatest creative power you have on earth ... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle. — Anne Rice

Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out. — Audre Lorde

The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow. — Mark Helprin

Our finest method of organized forgetting is called discovery. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time. — Thomas Mann

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers. — Adam Leith Gollner

Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts? — Muriel Barbery

Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business. — Gerard Brennan

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else. — Alain De Botton

WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS ... — Muffin

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. — Lord Acton

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. — Alfred North Whitehead

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. — Richard M. Nixon

The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts of another. — Tedd Tripp

A stunner ... reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. — James Rollins

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado. — Bayard Taylor

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. — Denis Waitley

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. — Thomas Guthrie

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. — Terry Eagleton

It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death. — Jarett Kobek

You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home. — John Candy

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it. — Jim Coleman

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. — John Burnside

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is. — Mona Sahlin

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. — Karl Lagerfeld

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries. — Rachel Caine

I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice. — Robert A. Heinlein

I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring. — Ivan Doig

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. — Donald Wolfit

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision! — Sam Houston

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife. — Heraclitus

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. — Thomas Reid

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment. — Louise Nurding

Keep them dumb and broke and you have democratic, capitalistic slavery at its finest. — Jake Bible

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell

Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin

in his sledge. The girl was wearing her finest gown and wrapped in — Katherine Arden

There was the finest line between unique and odd, — Jodi Picoult

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. — Ferran Adria

I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him. — Philippa Gregory

Cheyenne. Created from the finest Belgian lace over ivory sateen, it fit Anna like — Maggie Brendan

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic. — Thomas Ligotti

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. — William Henry Harrison

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline. — Pete Townshend

But it says here,' said Ridcully, 'that you are a finest swordsman,' 'I was outnumbered.' 'How many of them were there?' 'Three million. — Terry Pratchett

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met. — John C. Maxwell

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. — Salman Rushdie

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century. — Paul Begala

Whatever you did, man, you laid her to rest." I didn't lay Stacy's soul to rest. I sent her to hell. It wasn't my finest hour. — Craig Schaefer

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. — Goran Persson

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