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Quotes About Fair

Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee; yet Thou seest them, and dividest the darkness. And behold, the universe with them is fair, though they are foul.
~ St. Augustine
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
The presence of millions of small investors had politicized the stock market. It had been legislated and regulated to at least seem fair.
~ Michael Lewis
There is a fair amount of moderation on the site, not only for legal reasons, but for moral ones as well. We look out for bullying and just overall safety for the kids. It is a well-groomed site.
~ David Baszucki
All's fair in love and purchasing.
~ Emily Oster
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
~ William Shakespeare
As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
You're fair. Dirty blond and fair-complected.
~ Bill Clinton
Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.
~ Bram Stoker
I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.
~ Julie Garwood
We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
~ Kenneth Blackwell
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
~ Jalal Talabani
Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
~ Francis Bacon
I'm a student of regret, and she's a tough but fair teacher whose lessons on empathy and compassion are critical pieces of wholehearted living.
~ Brene Brown
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
~ Herman Melville
the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril
~ Herman Melville
Some of the yellow cards I get are for tactical fouls, which is fair enough, but I don't like the others - the ones for protesting.
~ Marco Verratti
I was secretary of the Treasury when the credit bubble burst, so I think it's fair to say that I know a little bit about risk, assessing outcomes, and problem-solving.
~ Henry Paulson
Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
~ Bennie Thompson
Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.
~ James B. Stewart
It's time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.
~ Kirsten Powers