Quotes of: Fair-play Keyword

Une manière commode de faire la connaissance d'une ville est de chercher comment on y travaille, comment on y aime et comment on y meurt.

The Plague

God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.

The Prince and the Pauper

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

Paranormalcy

(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

A Touch of Wonder

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Vanity Fair

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Vanity Fair

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Vanity Fair

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

White Night

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

Adam Davidson

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

Jim Walsh

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Joe Wilson

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

Nydia Velazquez

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

Patrick Carney

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

Paul Harris

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

Pete Rozelle

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Robert Agostinelli

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Rory Bremner

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.

Reed Hundt

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Shirley Knight

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

Stephen Kinzer