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Quotes About Fair

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
~ Liz Truss
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.
~ Karen Maitland
When you get inside, go to the stairs and one of them will escort you up. Go directly to the stairs," he said pointedly. "Try not to get in trouble or cause a riot on the way." "I don't think that's a fair statement. Life isn't always chaotic around me." "Like when isn't it?" "Like when I'm . . ." I thought a minute. "Alone," I finished pissily. "Or asleep.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Yeah, I knew a lot of those guys who parachute jumped at county fairs in the twenties and thirties, I just never knew any of them for very long.
~ Fritz Orchard
Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.
~ Gaston Leroux
The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and government have proved that no matter what your resources, you cannot reliably control the conduct of crazy people. It is not fair, but it is so.
~ Gavin de Becker
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
The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow. That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
~ Herman Melville
Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
~ Kathryn Lasky
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
~ Stephen Hadley
I love Pushkar because of the Pushkar Fair, which happens every fall - it's this camel festival, with ornately-dressed camels, camel races. But the reason I truly love this city is the Hindu mythology behind it.
~ Maneet Chauhan
I don't believe Trump or Cruz are fair traders. I think they are probably both free traders.
~ Sherrod Brown
I knew I was becoming popular in Argentina. I was starting to feel that some companies in Argentina were wanting to associate with me, so I just wanted to be a facilitator to raise funds and distribute them the way I thought was fair and to institutions that I trusted.
~ Manu Ginobili
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.
~ Lady Gaga
Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.
~ George Rogers Clark
Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?
~ Charles Rangel
You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.
~ Stuart Wilde
Liberals will continue to put forward positive solutions that will help our economy grow and give all Canadians a real and fair chance at success.
~ Justin Trudeau
Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments.
~ Paul Polman
Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in't.
~ John Webster, The White Devil
Fair' is in the eye of the beholder; 'free' is the verdict of the market. The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.
~ Milton Friedman
You girls, said Miss Brodie, must learn to cultivate an expression of composure. It is one of the best assets of a woman, an expression of composure, come foul, come fair. Regard the Mona Lisa over yonder!
~ Muriel Spark
it is not that "we" are broke or that we lack options. It is that our political class is utterly unwilling to go where the money is (unless it's for a campaign contribution), and the corporate class is dead set against paying its fair share.
~ Naomi Klein