For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in… — Julia Cameron 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
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense....… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith 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
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles. — James Cook Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Aphorisms should be peaks – and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image