A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
William Lyon Phelps

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug Coupland

Books are a finer world within the world.
Alexander Smith

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Daniel De Leon

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
Mercedes Lackey

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
Frank Knox

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

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.
Kiana Tom

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.
Paul Hoffman

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
Coretta Scott King

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner

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

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats