Fine Things famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
-- Elbert Hubbard

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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
-- Gabriela Sabatini

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Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for Say it isn't true There always has been and always will be war
-- Jackson Browne

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Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.
-- Libba Bray

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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
-- Plutarch

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Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
-- Stacy Aumonier

#Blue #Tradition #Fine Things
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
-- William Butler Yeats

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You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
-- William Morris Hunt

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I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.
-- William Zinsser

#Thinking #Fine Things #Ends

You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
My greatest fear: repetition.
Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.