The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. — Charles Rollin Copy Share Image
Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain. — James Hervey Copy Share Image
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
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the… — Arthur Helps 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
What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead… — Joseph Goebbels 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
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of… — Orison Swett Marden 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 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
In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
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
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
