Fair Quotes

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

I think UNC and Lorrie Fair is a perfect match.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

I like honesty and fair play.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

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

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

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.

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

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.

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

Personally, I've never met anyone who knew everything, though I've met a fair amount of people who apparently don't know a damn thing.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.