But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about… — Wynton Marsalis 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
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — 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
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
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
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“People can’t see, that; which you don’t. (People can’t see what YOU don’t)” — Tiffany Luard 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
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. — Edward Gibbon 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
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.” — Roderick L. Evans 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
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into… — Havelock Ellis 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
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To reach the top you don’t have to climb up to the top; just define a height as the top, that’s’ it,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
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