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“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.”

Way Stills Different Ends Home Risk Danger Fine Soldier Planes Different Ways Injured Back Home

Author:Kevin Powers

“I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.”

Thinking Ends Fine Sentences Fine Things Prepositions

Author:William Zinsser

“I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.”

People Thinking Ends Play Would Be Fine Horse

Author:Dawn French

“All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.”

Wells Stills Ends Courses Fine Crowns Renown

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton

“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”

Heart Ends Care Romance Lying Stuff Justice Fiction Moral Fine Reader Lessons Conversation Essence Revenge Hungry Manners Good Man Repentance Sentiments Good Manners

Author:Alberto Manguel

“As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.”

Art Made Book Ends Artist Masters Fine Slave Comic Comic Book Fine Arts Carnivals

Author:Mark Kostabi

“No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.”

May Ends Hard Joy Fine

Book:The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.”

Ifs War Ends Would Be Games Lost Fine Drink Battle Fine Things

Author:David Gemmell

“To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.”

People Writing Ends Cases Fine Excellence Vices Attire Plainness

Book:The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

“My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."”

Ifs Knows Ends Mother Fine Chains Jail

Author:Chris Rock

“There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.”

Ends Learning Four Students Fine Type Wine Permit Sponges Flour

Book:The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

“I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.”

Ifs Ends Hurt Fine Complicated Mundane Hurting Myself

Author:Lauren Cohan

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“As a driver you enjoy winning races and, if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip-and-tuck stuff.”

Ifs Way Ends Reality Remember Fighting Winning Stuff Enjoy Race Fine Drivers Winning The Race

Author:Allan McNish

“The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.”

People Long Ends Reason Today Young Social Numbers Pay Security Fine Tomorrow Europe Crisis Faster Rising Japan Schemes Old People Social Security Pension Ratios Ponzi Scheme

Author:Milton Friedman

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.”

“When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.”

Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.”

“I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?”

“The resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.”

People Giving Believe Ends Happens House Causes Fine Resources Our Family Screws Philanthropic Counterproductive

Author:Steve Case

“I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.”

Ifs Persons Doe Ends Waiting Fine Type Shoes Peter

Author:Steve Carell

“Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.”

Ends Guy Waiting Wonder Morning Saws Air Design Color Fine Lonely Wake Up Paint Shirts Parks The End Of The Day Suspects Floating T Shirt Amusement Particles Mist Spray Amusement Parks

Author:Ian Caldwell

“A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.”

Should Ends Play Action Process Results Careers Player Football Fine Decided Mark End Results Football Match

Author:Michel Patini

“Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.”

People Way Years Art Ends Helping Shows Fun Felt Fine Art Is Critics Busy Awards Good Way Rating Award Shows Using Words

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.”

Ifs Art Ends Environment Fine Satisfied Museums Clients Gallery Fine Arts Unsatisfied

Author:Eric Drooker

“I think everybody has a responsibility to themselves. If at the end of the day, you can rest and feel OK with yourself, that's fine.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Responsibility Fine The End Of The Day

Author:Jean Grae

“I've seen people wearing clothes that don't look good on them, but they're really loving those clothes and the experience of wearing those clothes. Fine. At the end of the day, it's fashion.”

People Looks Ends Fashion Fine Clothes The End Of The Day

Author:Ian Astbury

“Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?”

Ifs Mean Littles Art Different Ends Artist Bits Hell Fine Discipline Conversation Little Bit Art Is Art History

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.”

Ifs Ends Life Is Stuff Goal Destiny Fine Flow Compromise Take Me Mainstream Routes Make Me Happy Life Goal My Destiny Just Be Happy Going With The Flow

Author:Jhene Aiko

“Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“How many chefs when I was a young boy shouted at me during service? All I ever said was "Yes, chef." The customer is the most important. If the chef overreacts, fine. At the end of service, you apologize.”

Ifs Said Important Ends Young Boys Fine Customers Apologizing Chef

Author:Marco Pierre White

“The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.”

Ifs Ends Problem Together Fall Fine Cost Built Recessions Rigidity Dislocation

Author:Charles Koch

“If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.”

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Author:David Eagleman

“There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.”

Ifs Knows Persons Different Ends Play Wanted Bits Difficult Acting Growing Up Growing Fine Findings The End Of The Day Finding Myself

Author:Rowan Blanchard

“...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”

Ends Use Fine Balance Despair Stones Stepping Stones Hope And Despair

Book:A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.”

Ends Fine Choke Trembling Gags

Book:Impulse

Source: Impulse