Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization…The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime,… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate." I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“We must each of us do our home work. 'My people are destroyed,' said Hosea, 'for lack of knowledge.' We must be… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Why do gods always like to be worshipped in high places?” Kaz muttered. “It’s men who seek grandeur,” Inej said, springing nimbly… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The son of a poor Muslim postman , only on the basis of his skills , can become the country's cricket team… — Main Uddin Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
“Withdraw yourself from the low places and replace yourself to the high places! Leave the local positions; take a universal position! To… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
If lesbians were purple, none would be admitted to respected places. But if all lesbians suddenly turned purple today, society would be… — Sidney Abbott Copy Share Image
I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“She liked the high places, away from the subterranean rage of the working class. No one was there to mirror her image… — Misha Copy Share Image
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too… — David Titley Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image