Top 100 Fair But Quotes
#1. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so
Gavin De Becker
#2. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.
Jane Green
#3. Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.
Jessica Park
#4. And it's not fair. But all's fair in love and war, right?
Shelly Crane
#5. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
Maya Banks
#6. It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.
Christina Rossetti
#7. She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)
Maureen Johnson
#8. The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.
Neil Gaiman
#9. I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Bill Watterson
#10. I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
Beyonce Knowles
#11. Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.
Julia Scheeres
#12. America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
Robert Pozen
#13. Be critical, fine, that's fair. But don't be cruel. Every damn one of us knows the difference.
If you are not kind on the internet, then you're not kind.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#15. Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics ... now, this is something unique.
John McAfee
#16. It provides a convenient excuse for arbitrary decisions: asked why it rejected a student, a college can say that he or she looked wonderful on paper but didn't fit into the mix. The image of a fair but fickle process also pumps up the applicant pool:
Daniel Golden
#18. Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.
Luci Swindoll
#19. Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.
Lou Holtz
#20. Life isn't fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different - every path is different - for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.
Rachel Van Dyken
#21. There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Gabriela Mistral
#23. Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#24. What do they mean 'serial killers'! said Serge. (person 1), okay. But (person 2) was self-defence and the (person 3)-I mean, that was the World Series! You can call me a murderer, fair is fair, but as soon as you put 'serial' in front of it, everyone automatically thinks your crazy.
Tim Dorsey
#25. Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers.
Jennifer Harrison
#26. One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I'm present whether I'm present or not. It's not fair, but that's the system. What can I do about it?
Erin O'Riordan
#27. If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason.
Megan Duke
#28. I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ...
Marjorie Fleming
#29. Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.
Sharon Kay Penman
#30. Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga
Eva Pohler
#31. People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.
Lynn Marie Sager
#32. It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.
David F. D'Alessandro
#33. I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.
Nadya Suleman
#34. If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
William Howard Taft
#35. To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt
#36. Having no choice doesn't seem fair.But having all of them isn't really easier.
Kendare Blake
#37. It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.
Susan Wiggs
#38. Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.
Tupac Shakur
#39. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
William Shakespeare
#41. It. May. Not. Be Fair. But. It. Can. Be. Good.
Avery Flynn
#42. It wasn't fair and part of him knew it wasn't fair, but never in his life had he felt so helpless, so lost, and so consequently mean. He
Stephen King
#43. Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#44. Government isn't always just, and it isn't always fair. But it should be.
Joelle Charbonneau
#45. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
Sigrid Undset
#46. There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#47. No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?
Marge Piercy
#48. When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
Warren Moon
#49. ultra-professional, a fair but firm
Samantha X
#50. The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
David Mamet
#51. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
#52. Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.
Ben Shapiro
#53. This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. Henry
#54. I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
Joel Osteen
#55. It didn't seem fair, but then, a lot of things aren't. We take them as they come.
Louis L'Amour
#56. far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on." "Huh.
Joe Abercrombie
#57. That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan
#59. Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
[Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]
George Herbert
#60. Friends come and go like waiters in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? [...] Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair, but it happens
Stephen King
#61. If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui
#63. And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks
Tom Robbins
#65. No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.
Chuck Palahniuk
#66. It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.
Tim Powers
#67. The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
Candace Bushnell
#68. It's probably my job to tell you life isn't fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I'll tell you that hope is precious, and you're right not to give up.
C.J. Redwine
#69. It wasn't fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn't have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.
Miles Watson
#70. The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.
Scott Adams
#71. Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?
Rick Warren
#72. Life ain't always easy and it ain't always fair, but there's beauty in every day. You just gotta know where to look.
Ellery Adams
#73. We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
Philip Yancey
#74. People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.
Robert Winston
#75. I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
Edward Kennedy
#76. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.
Andrew Klavan
#77. I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
Dolly Parton
#79. But it wasn't fair that he was so good-looking. He was such an asshole, and not in a charming way.
Lauren Conrad
#80. For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?
Zach Braff
#81. I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.
George Carlin
#82. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.
Anna Freeman
#83. But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, - and the long year remembers you.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#84. Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Philip James Bailey
#85. They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Todd Lowe
#87. Fair enough" I gave him. "But you've got really nice shoes."
He blinked, then cast a dubious glance at his boots. "They were in my closet." I snorted and plucked at the sleeves of his jacket.
"Please you've been planning this outfit for a week.
Chloe Neill
#88. Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
Warren Farrell
#89. To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.
Charles Dickens
#90. My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus
#91. My family was made of good people who did good things with what they were given. What fairness does life show in a time like this? But life is not fair and that is nothing new, so I bottled the pain and loss, and released them through a single tear rolling down my cheek.
B.M. Tolbert
#92. I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
Don Baylor
#93. Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.
Jennifer Crusie
#94. Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.
Max Brooks
#95. I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun, but no one could ever accuse me of being a dilettante and doing nothing. I was always on this unbelievable quest to go and do.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#96. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#97. I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart..
Laarni Venus Marie Giango
#98. We were, fair queen, /
Two lads that thought there was no more behind /
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, /
And to be boy eternal.
William Shakespeare
#99. To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
Heraclitus
#100. But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.
ASAP Rocky
