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Quotes About Fair

You know what a fond and silly heart he has towards the fair sex -- any pill goes down with him that is administered by the hand or gilded with the name of woman.
~ Unknown
Tis not fair, you know. I have no life left, not even enough to get up, and you are footslogging around this chamber as if you have fire under your…" She paused. "My what?" He was grinning at her. "Your big feet." He laughed loud and heartily and tossed the towel aside. "You know what the old wives say about big feet.
~ Unknown
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
~ Jim Butcher
A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they're too easy to lose. Of
~ Jim Butcher
I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake," she said
~ Jim Butcher
He who doesn't go to temple in bad weather will go to hell when it is fair.
~ Unknown
For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
~ Virginia Foxx
The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh calling Away, come away.
~ W.B. Yeats
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is blue and the dead are coming back. Later in the afternoon, with sad resignation, the county fair bares its breasts.
~ Denis Johnson
Grey's hair was like his mother's—fair, thick and slightly wavy, prone to disorder unless tightly constrained, which it always would be, if Tom Byrd was given his way.
~ Diana Gabaldon
In all honesty, the story plays out this way because (bear in mind that I wrote it for practice and never intended to show it to anyone, let alone try to publish it) I'd read several romance novels in which the heroine was threatened by rape or actually raped—and having already decided in a moment of whimsy that Jamie should be the virgin bridegroom…I sort of shrugged and said, "Hey, turnabout's fair play….
~ Diana Gabaldon
I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.
~ Tom Bateman
We're going to do everything we can to harden our systems, to make sure that our elections are free and fair and the will of the American people is implemented.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.
~ Sean Doolittle
I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.
~ John Edgar Wideman
I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
~ Imelda Marcos
did let them live. I even made the commander of the garrison at San Luis Potosi promise that he would give the bandidos a fair trial before he hangs them." Caleb's fists clenched white, remembering the words of a Jewish grocer he'd once known in Ohio. The old Jew told him a strange story handed down by his ancestors about when the Red Sea swallowed the Egyptian army.
~ Unknown
Like the foul lines, the foul poles are actually in fair territory.
~ Unknown
The foul lines extend through the batter's box, even though the white chalk lines are not drawn there. If a hit ball bounces within the batter's box, but inside the imaginary foul lines, it will be a fair ball.
~ Unknown
Care to drop anchor beside me, lass?" He grinned, wolfishly. "Morning is the fairest time for a tryst, you know.
~ Unknown
The starting point, of course, is to ensure that the baseline rewards - wages, salaries, benefits, and so on - are adequate and fair. Without a healthy baseline, motivation of any sort is difficult and often impossible.
~ Daniel H. Pink