High ground Quote by Anthony Trollope Download Open image ““He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.”” — Anthony Trollope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare High ground
“He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“He was standing on the little ledge of reality he had left, but it seemed to me that he wasn't getting high, just getting… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“...it was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.” — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
“I stood benumbed. The man was like an electric shock--nothing to hold on to and you don't know what hit you.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...” — Eve A. Floriste Copy Share Image
Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on… — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
I always say that playing Christ has just made me a better version of myself because I aspire to greater things, to a moral… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
“When someone tries to pull you into the mud, remember that they have to get dirty just to reach you; stay on the high… — Fazal Nasir Copy Share Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
“Things had changed between us in a profound way, something I think we both knew. All our fighting and nitpicking seemed so silly now.… — Joanna Wylde Copy Share Image
I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews fighting for… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
“I used to think that was what set me apart, you know? That I always did what I thought was right and didn't give… — Kyle Mills Copy Share Image
“You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you feel entitled… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
