Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race,… — Rib Hillis Copy Share Image
...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did,… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a… — Niki Tsongas Copy Share Image
Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
There's kind of like that fright and excitement all at the same time when you first see someone of his stature. Where… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good;… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues.… — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“Remember, you don’t have to be mighty in stature to be mighty in battle. You don’t have to be beautiful or strong,… — Susie Larson Copy Share Image
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Stature is more than how tall you stand. It includes what you stand for, who you stand up for, who you stand… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success.… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image