Higher Quotes · Page 49

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

— T. D. Jakes

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting…

— Yukimi Nagano

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

— Jen Lilley

I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.

— Charlotte Rae

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

— Georg Cantor

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

— Geoff Mulgan

A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The…

— Rudolf Steiner

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels…

— Henry David Thoreau

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much…

— Philip Sidney

If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as…

— Bert McCracken

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who…

— Maxwell Perkins

Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not…

— Katharine Hepburn

Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost…

— Jeff Mills

... they are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a…

— Ken Wilber

An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But…

— Albert Einstein

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the…

— Aldo Leopold

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the…

— John Boehner

[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so…

— Michael Steele

Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than…

— Joseph J. Romm

Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a…

— Thomas Merton

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation,…

— David Petraeus

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

— Daniel Kahneman

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

— Neil Young

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

— Guy Kawasaki

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and…

— Mary Astell

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

— Charles Darwin

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

— Salman Khan

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

— Gary Hart

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

— George Herbert

[Donald Trump] gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than [Hillary Clinton] does ,among military members.

— Eric Bolling

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right…

— Tina Turner

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

— Milan Kundera

I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will…

— John Katzman

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

— Simone Weil

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

— John Naisbitt