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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Good, Heart, Greatest

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

Society, Person, Made

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

Humanity, Sense, Another

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Time, Working, Water

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Love, Friendship, Balm

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

Art, While, Possible

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

Good, Past, Minds

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

Humor, Genius, Perfection

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

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

Life, Winners, Treat

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
Phyllis Diller

Half, Hour, Minute

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Love, Family, Best

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

Simple, Words, Made

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

Success, Best, Thinks

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

Fire, Through, Hottest

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
Michel de Montaigne

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
Stephen King

Find, Try, Cannot

The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman

House, White, Prison

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

War, Between, Far

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Great, Power, Long

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
Ted Nugent

God, Rock, American

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson

Nothing, Saying, Often

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

Experience, Complete, Suspended

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
Jerry Saltz

Art, United, Anywhere

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

Question, Planet, Guitars

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.
Evel Knievel

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

Around, Though, Admired

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
Bertolt Brecht

Themselves, Carry, Spoiled

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

Nature, Power, Nothing

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