Stature Quotes

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

— Thomas Carlyle

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

— Michel de Montaigne

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway

Books are men of higher stature.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

— Louie Giglio

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

— George Savile

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

— Brooks Atkinson

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

— Andy Rooney

“But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.”

— Michael Lewis

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

— Gloria Estefan

Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.

— Charles Halford

If the public has given us stature, we must also be answerable to them.

— Koena Mitra

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

— Taylor Caldwell

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

— Nikita Khrushchev

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

— Ron Atkinson

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

— William Sloane Coffin

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to…

— Joy Page

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving…

— Germaine Greer

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the…

— Walter Benjamin

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New…

— John George Nicolay

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as…

— Earl Nightingale

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It…

— Sheri L. Dew

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against…

— Gioconda Belli

What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your…

— Mila Kunis

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping…

— Lamar Alexander

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.…

— Andre Bazin

Stature is more than how tall you stand. It includes what you stand for, who you stand up for, who you stand…

— Melchor Lim

When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I…

— Donald Bradman

In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the…

— Ellen G. White

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your…

— Steve Guttenberg

History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation.…

— John F. Kennedy

Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And…

— Judy Woodruff

At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get…

— Anne Lamott

Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,…

— Martin Buber

People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of…

— Michael Newdow

The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one…

— Stanley Crouch

I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because…

— Billy Corgan

First, there are many who can fight, but they're small in stature; Zhang Lanxin is 177 cm [5'9"+] tall, with very long…

— Jackie Chan

When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees,…

— Marvin J. Ashton