„The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.“
Journal, 29 March 1912 http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/diaries/scottslastexpedition/
Robert Falcon Scott
britischer Polarforscher 1868 - 1912Ähnliche Zitate
„The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.“
— Victor J. Stenger American philosopher 1935 - 2014
In The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us
— Carole King Nasa 1942
One Fine Day (1963), Co-written with Gerry Goffin, recorded by The Chiffons
Song lyrics, Singles
„Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way“
— Cecil Day Lewis English poet 1904 - 1972
Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy (1949)
„Helnwein is a very fine artist and one sick motherfucker.“
— Gottfried Helnwein Austrian photographer and painter 1948
Robert Crumb, letter to his San Francisco art-dealer Martin Muller, 1992
— Imre Kertész Hungarian writer 1929 - 2016
Quelle: Detective Story (2008), p. 66.
Kontext: "You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique."
"I’m living for the present, Dad."
"Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary."
‘ I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. ‘It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
When asked at a town hall meeting prior to the 2008 New Hampshire Primary about a Bush statement that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 50 years. 3 January 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/index.html
2000s, 2008
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662
— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
Speech to Chelsea Conservative Association (26 July 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102750
Leader of the Opposition
— Nathanael Greene American general in the American Revolutionary War 1742 - 1786
Letter to George Washington (August 1778)
— André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
„We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves“
— Yasmina Khadra Algerian writer 1955
Quelle: The Attack
„And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.“
— A. S. Byatt, buch Possession
Page 223; the poet being Robert Browning in Epilogue in his collection of poems Dramatis Personae.
Possession (1990)
— Horatio Nelson Royal Navy Admiral 1758 - 1805
From a letter to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, written while aboard HMS Victory and dated (14 March 1805), quoted in full in The Naval History of Great Britain from the year 1783 to 1822 by Captain Edward Pelham Brenton (1824), Vol III, p. 406
1800s
