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
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main… — Anonymous 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
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did… — Jonathan Gottschall 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
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty… — John Muir Copy Share Image
[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is… — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty… — Gottfried Keller Copy Share Image
The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image