In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence. — John Waters Copy Share Image
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics. — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image