Top 328 Finer Quotes & Sayings

The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

I love the finer things.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

When the sun shines in Britain there's no finer place on Earth.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

I have long believed that there is no finer group than those who serve in the Department of Justice.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

I have read Geminis are peaceful, who have an eye for finer things. That ways, yes, I'm a true Gemini.

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.

The harder the life, the finer the person.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

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

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

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

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.