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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

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

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it. — Rene Char

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

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding

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

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad. — Manuel Vazquez Montalban

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer

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

I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known. — John Edwards

Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers. — Lisa Gardner

She knew what she wanted: the best. He knew what he was: the best. They enhanced each other's finest qualities, as true love will. — Karen Marie Moning

San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions. — Vincent Price

The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying. They know their ideas on the topic are not popular. — Ann Coulter

The soul is nothing but the innards of the finest watch, ruined before the watchmaker's hands even touch it, by its exposure to air. — Kathy Hepinstall

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. — Arthur Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conceit spoils the finest genius. — Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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