Top 100 Finley Quotes
#1. Finley hesitated. Maybe he'd move out of her way and let her pass.
Or a voice in her head whispered - her voice - you could kick his teeth in.
Kady Cross
#2. These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.
Steve Finley
#3. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,
Kady Cross
#4. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
Moses Finley
#5. Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
Guy Finley
#6. The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale was awakened by the kiss of her prince. Finley woke up to the over-whelming and oh-so-not-delightful smell of vinegar.
"Bloody hell!" She cried, lurching upright.
Kady Cross
#7. When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you ... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see ... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.
Guy Finley
#8. I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.
James Finley
#9. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley
#10. All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11
James Finley
#11. The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
Guy Finley
#12. Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Guy Finley
#13. People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.
Ron Finley
#14. What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
Guy Finley
#15. In the western world today everyone is a democrat.
Moses Finley
#16. You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
#17. As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
Guy Finley
#18. Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#19. With Fresh Healthy Vending growing by the day, my role is ever-evolving, just as the company is, and I intend to take on any necessary responsibilities in order to make a positive impact and spread a message we all believe in so strongly.
Steve Finley
#20. Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
Guy Finley
#21. Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ...
Martha Finley
#23. Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.
Guy Finley
#24. On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'
Catfish Hunter
#25. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself
Guy Finley
#26. There were plenty of reasons to do the things I'd done, but Aiby had always been my reason.
Pierdomenico Baccalario
#27. Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"
Guy Finley
#28. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne
#29. But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal
Martha Finley
#30. You think I pretend weakness?"
She nodded. "Not weakness, but you like to let others think they're in control, when it's you.
Kady Cross
#31. Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.
James Finley
#32. Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
Finley Peter Dunne
#33. A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.
Finley Peter Dunne
#34. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
#35. One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
Guy Finley
#36. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
#39. Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
Guy Finley
#40. No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
#41. Don't cry, Treasure. You'll get me all wet and then I'll melt. I'm made of sugar, don't you know.
Kady Cross
#43. Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
Guy Finley
#44. That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
#45. We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer ... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.
Guy Finley
#47. The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
Guy Finley
#48. Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
Guy Finley
#49. Care for a leg?' Mr. MacDonnell held the basket of chicken up toward Fenris Jones.
'Is that some kinda comment?' Fenris Jones demanded.
'Of course not,' Mr. MacDonnell said. 'It's an offer of dinner.
Martha Finley
#50. We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.
Ron Finley
#51. Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.
Martha Finley
#52. Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.
Moses Finley
#53. Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.
Martha Finley
#54. The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
Finley Peter Dunne
#55. The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
Guy Finley
#56. I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's the life I know. If I didn't love the life of baseball, I wouldn't work out like I do every winter.
Steve Finley
#57. Finely blinked, "Griffin?"
"That's my girl." He murmured in a low tone, so no one but her could hear. Then, as the crowd drew too close, he swept her away,
Kady Cross
#58. Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender
Guy Finley
#59. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
Ron Finley
#60. We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.
Guy Finley
#61. It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
Guy Finley
#63. I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.
Michael Finley
#64. Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
Finley Peter Dunne
#65. This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.
Jermichael Finley
#66. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
Guy Finley
#67. Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.
Guy Finley
#68. Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.
Charlie Finley
#69. Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne
#70. And as for girls who try to stay away from me - my charm always wears them down."
"I'm up-to-date on my shots, so I'm pretty much immune to everything.
Jenny B. Jones
#71. Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
Guy Finley
#72. The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne
#73. A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne
#74. My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.
Steve Nash
#75. Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
Moses Finley
#76. When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
Finley Peter Dunne
#77. Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
Guy Finley
#78. You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.
Guy Finley
#80. Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.
Jermichael Finley
#81. If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
Finley Peter Dunne
#82. The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
Guy Finley
#83. Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
Guy Finley
#84. Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.
Guy Finley
#85. Real achievement
the true measure of how far we have advanced in life
is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.
Guy Finley
#86. Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
Guy Finley
#87. Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
Guy Finley
#88. The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.
Guy Finley
#89. I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
Finley Peter Dunne
#91. No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
Guy Finley
#92. And that was when Finley Declan Holliday lost his mind and unleashed hell on Brandon Wannamaker, Jeff Schultz and Troy Piggott.
Kristen Ashley
#93. Never again help anyone to feel as though they have a right to feel badly.
Guy Finley
#94. Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.
Martha Finley
#95. What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
Michael Finley
#97. Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you ... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
Guy Finley
#98. Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.
Guy Finley
#99. The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People
Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
Guy Finley
#100. The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
Guy Finley
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