One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.
We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight. The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
I always thought I was the finest thing around.
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
[White House is] the finest prison in the world.
We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering. Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?
Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.
Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.
My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried. '
Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.