Fair Minded Quotes

#1. ...he'd made friends with the oblivion found in dreamless sleep."
~Aidan

Stephanie Stamm

#2. I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

John Cornyn

#3. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

Saul Bellow

#5. Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. Fair-minded people avoid zero-sum games in which one-person's win translates into another person's loss.

Frank Sonnenberg

#7. Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that.

Nick Clegg

#8. If Harry had been less noble, less fair-minded, Cedric would have lived. It is a very classic example of how noble intentions often lead to tragic results." He straightened, squared off with the hunter. "I have no desire to be Harry Potter.

Joey W. Hill

#9. Fair-minded people never twist rules for personal gain.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#11. Fair-minded people 'get in the game' rather than criticizing from the sidelines.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. But could you just... stay for tonight?

Aimee Carter

#13. A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.

Aesop

#14. The Count was clearly a fair-minded man. Anyone who didn't think so deserved to die.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

Lennox Lewis

#16. The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#17. It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that's drunk.

Krista Ritchie

#18. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Fred D'Aguiar

#19. In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do.

Fredrik Backman

#20. The sand was hard-packed and solid and wet, speckled all over with cockle shells in colors and patterns of such profusion and variety that they must have given the first Dutchmen the idea to go out into the sea and bring back precious things from afar.

Neal Stephenson

#21. Next time you call my kid a whore, I will end you, you fuckin' feel me?

Madeline Sheehan

#22. He repeated his plea that they be fair and open-minded, open to reason and compromise, and praised them for being so reasonable and open-minded thus far - which of course made it harder for them to act otherwise,

Robert A. Caro

#23. Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.

Amor Towles

#24. Any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.

Margery Wilson

#25. Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Abigail Van Buren

#26. You come back to train with Botkin. I hit big girl same as little girl."
"That's very egalitarian of you." I said, and hurried Tamar out of the stables before Botkin decided to show me just how fair-minded he could be.

Leigh Bardugo

#27. Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

Chellie Pingree

#28. So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.

Billy Sherwood

#29. What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

Samuel Johnson

#30. Fair-minded people make a concerted effort to pull their own weight rather than living off the hard work of others.

Frank Sonnenberg

#31. And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

Jeff Gannon

#32. Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

Nigel Farage

#33. Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

Frank Sonnenberg

#34. I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

David Cunliffe

#35. No fair-minded girl objects to a certain tinge of jealousy. Kept within proper bounds, it is a compliment; it makes for piquancy; it is the gin in the ginger-beer of devotion. But it should be a condiment, not a fluid.

P.G. Wodehouse