Finley Quotes & Sayings

All the attention in the world won't do my dishes. — Ron Finley

They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which can not be removed, but abideth forever. — Martha Finley

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment. — Guy Finley

This is Ireland, Finley. It's rough. It's wild. And it is holy. — Jenny B. Jones

Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows. — Guy Finley

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne

And that was when Finley Declan Holliday lost his mind and unleashed hell on Brandon Wannamaker, Jeff Schultz and Troy Piggott. — Kristen Ashley

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it. — Guy Finley

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started. — Guy Finley

The older woman smiled. 'You're a good girl, my dear. Just what His Grace needs - someone to take him in hand.' Finley didn't think that meant quite what came to mind. — Kady Cross

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

So neither massive head injuries, nor finding out you're a member of this family thirty freaking minutes ago-and therefore have very little experience handling weapons-gets you out of patrol?" I asked as I met Finley and Izzy by the backdoor.
After Aislinn had made her announcement, Mom had tried to argue on my behalf, saying that A) I was still processing the whole "being a Brannick" thing, and B) I had gone through a lot, so maybe I could use a nap. Or a snack.
Aislinn's answer was to give me ten minutes to take a shower, some of Finley's clothes, and a flask full of that Pine-Sol-tasting liquid. — Rachel Hawkins

So you're the demon spawn," Finley spit out.
"Finn!" Aislinn snapped. Huh. So at least one of the Brannicks hated me. Weirdly, that made me
feel better. That was normal. And if there was one thing I knew how to deal with, it was Mean Girls.
"I actually go by Sophie. — Rachel Hawkins

There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue. — Finley Peter Dunne

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. — Finley Peter Dunne

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. — Finley Peter Dunne

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence. — Guy Finley

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it. — Finley Peter Dunne

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it. — Guy Finley

We are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it. — Guy Finley

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being? — Guy Finley

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining — Guy Finley

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away. — Guy Finley

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win. — Finley Peter Dunne

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through. — Steve Finley

I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' Histhry iv Iceland to show ye how wrong I am. But mind ye, what I 've said goes. I let thim talk because it exercises their throats, but ye 've heard all th' decision on this limon case that'll get into th' fourth reader.' A voice fr'm th' audjeence, ' Do I get me money back ? ' Brown J. : ' Who ar-re ye ? ' Th' Voice : ' Th' man that ownded th' limons.' Brown J. : ' I don't know.' (Gray J., White J., dissentin' an' th' r-rest iv th' birds concurrin' but fr entirely diff'rent reasons.) — Finley Peter Dunne

I just ... I wanted to say thank you. For trying to save Finley and for ... I don't know. Being nicer to us than you had to be."
I smiled at her, and for a second, we did that "are we gonna hug?" dance, both of us moving in and out, our arms held at our sides. Good to know awkwardness apparently ran in the family. In the end, we just kind of patted each other's shoulders before Izzy went back downstairs, and I headed into my room. — Rachel Hawkins

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman. — Finley Peter Dunne

Fine. I don't have the time or the inclination to edit erotica, even good erotica, if there is such an animal. I'm not the only editor here. Give it to Thomas Finley." Zach named his least favorite coworker, the one who'd given him his nickname. "Or Angie Clark even."

"Finley? That pansy? He'd make a pass at Sutherlin, and she'd eat him alive. If you punched him in the face, he wouldn't even know how to bleed right."

Zach nearly laughed in agreement before remembering he was fighting with J.P. — Tiffany Reisz

A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him. — Finley Peter Dunne

I was overcome with emotion and couldn't speak - which is, after all, the simplest and the most complex kind of magic all at once. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the west then came to take for granted. There is nothing self-evident about the idea of theatre, of plays and players through whom private individuals, lacking priestly or other authority, publicly examined man's fate and commented on it by a poetic play which, despite the many traditional elements, was in its essential qualities a creation of the playwright. — Moses I. Finley

It's a terrible feeling to go to the funeral of someone whose voice you can't even remember. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

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

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache. — Guy Finley

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know. — Michael Finley

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion — Guy Finley

Trust everybody, but always cut the cards. — Finley Peter Dunne

You need to run away from me, because I'm not going to be the one to put a stop to this. I need to, but I don't want to. — Eden Finley

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself. — Guy Finley

What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything. — Guy Finley

Oh, you adults. You'll never understand anything about anything. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

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

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

Don't jump on a man unless he is down. — Finley Peter Dunne

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself. — James Finley

If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love. — James Finley

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become. — Guy Finley

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it. — Finley Peter Dunne

Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been incredible thus far. It has given me enough knowledge to take the important facts about healthy vending options to my own personal and professional contacts and expand these positive programs wherever we can. — Steve Finley

Dandy?" Sam was full-on scowling now. "What the hell does that scoundrel want?"
Finley returned his dark expression with one of her own. "You shouldn't use words you can't spell, mutton head. — Kady Cross

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

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse. — Finley Peter Dunne

That will give me time to hang out with Finley." His thin eyebrows waggled. "Show her what a real man can do with Legos. — Jenny B. Jones

When the Nazis took Paris, the director of the Toledo Museum of Art wrote to David Finley, director of the not yet opened National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to encourage the creation of a national plan, saying, I know [the possibility of invasion] is remote at the moment, but it was once remote in France. — Robert M. Edsel

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight. — Don Nelson

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited ... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat. — Michael Finley

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now. — Guy Finley

We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore. — Martha Finley

He's so handsome," Phoebe commented just as Finley directed her attention at her.
"Who?" she demanded.
"The Duke of Greythorne," came the reply. "He just left."
She glanced out the window, but all she saw was a tall gentleman with reddish-brown hair and wearing very fashionable clothing as he walked away from her. "Well, he has a tolerable back," she commented drily.
Pheobe snickered. "Looking at his backside are you, Finley? — Kady Cross

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly. — Guy Finley

The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: Is this what I really want? — Guy Finley

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you! — Guy Finley

As she hangs out the window her husband walks below, but her husband hadn't memorized her shadow and she didn't know how to wear perfume. — Karen Finley

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. — Guy Finley

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. — Finley Peter Dunne

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it. — Michael Finley

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness. — Guy Finley

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think. — Finley Peter Dunne

Love is effortless attention. — Guy Finley

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention. — Guy Finley

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. — Guy Finley

To me, defense is a mental attitude...it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up. — Michael Finley

All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things. — Guy Finley

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. — Guy Finley

Moments later Griffin had Finley in the carriage, and Jasper sat on the seat across from them.
"What's the matter with her?" he asked Griffin.
Griffin shook his head. "Nothing. She's just two personas struggling for dominance in one body."
The cowboy's eyebrows shot up, but his expression was sympathetic. "Poor little thing. — Kady Cross

He doesn't lie so much as wrap the truth in temptation. — Kady Cross

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future. — Guy Finley

Even if you feel like you have lost Him, Gavi, He hasn't lost you. — Martha Finley

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better
it is just turning around as usual. — Finley Peter Dunne

by a Scotch-Irish preacher, a Presbyterian named James Finley, in the year 1801, or before John Roebling was born. Finley had been a versatile and ingenious man. His "chain bridge" had a seventy-foot span, cost about six hundred dollars, and in the next ten years he built some forty more of them, including one over the Potomac above Washington. — David McCullough

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body! — Guy Finley

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie. — Guy Finley

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea. — Guy Finley

Baseball is not a grind for me. — Steve Finley

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels. — Finley Peter Dunne

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. — Finley Peter Dunne

There were plenty of reasons to do the things I'd done, but Aiby had always been my reason. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

One way to prevent yourself from going through a considerable amount of useless pain is to see the truth of the following and then to act upon your discovery accordingly: judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; it serves only to distract you from seeing just how little it actually takes to set you off. — Guy Finley

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete. — Michael Finley

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding. — Guy Finley

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies ... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light. — Guy Finley

What sets you apart, what you call difference, comes from the Lord, but it is up to you to make the most of it. — Martha Finley

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne

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

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. — Guy Finley

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed. — Guy Finley