Fair Quotes

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Say
  • Fair
  • Prudent

• I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Always
  • Group
  • Fair

• The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Earth
  • Illumination
  • Gloom

• I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Game
  • Say
  • Going

• It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair:To dance to flutes, to dance to lutesIs delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feeTo dance upon the air!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Delicate

• The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Love
  • Lands
  • Peril

• The second category of personal questions would be more relevant when I finally call it a day and find myself in a reminiscent or atavistic frame of mind. As it is, I am still on the move - and intend to be so. It is not fair to ask me to anticipate the possible answers to such 'terminal' questions. I hope my reluctance to answer these questions will be understood in the right spirit.

  

  P. V. Narasimha Rao
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Fair

• It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • People
  • Effort
  • Risk

• My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fair
  • Wide
  • Inheritance

• What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Today

• Make fair agreements and stick to them.

  

  Confucius
  • Fair
  • Stick
  • Agreements

• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great
  • Fair
  • Relic

• I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fair
  • Don't Think

• The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

  

  Jonathan Raymond
  • Game
  • Fair
  • Testosterone

• I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fair
  • Condemn
  • Murders

• I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

  

  David Poole
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Liars

• As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Kings
  • Horrors
  • Murderers

• Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • Life
  • Reward
  • Rise

• Fight hard, fight fair and persevere.

  

  Edith Rogers
  • Fight
  • Fair
  • Persevere

• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Opinion

• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Never
  • Fair

• Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Care

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