The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
At this point of my life , I just do it for the elevation, meaning I stay at the top. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“Cudi is much lower in elevation, being about 6,800 feet high, so it would not have been so difficult to herd animals… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Moral elevation" describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called "the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with… — Marilyn Meberg Copy Share Image
When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that. — Jitin Prasada Copy Share Image
“I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one… — Petra Remes Copy Share Image
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level. — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass… — Saint Colette Copy Share Image
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution.” — Capies Pitts Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image