Above Quotes
4277 Above quotes by 2732 unique authors
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We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like…
— Mark Nepo
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The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of…
— Graham Joyce
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The peak of being a fan is a hotdog and a beer and a seat at the game. There's nothing above that. Nothing above it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
— Kate Chopin
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I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in…
— Eudora Welty
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I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was…
— Ed Bearss
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I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above…
— Gustav Klimt
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for…
— Colleen McCullough
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature,…
— Meister Eckhart
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There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed…
— Sri Aurobindo
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If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can…
— Lionel Terray
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It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal…
— Abbie Hoffman
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Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy…
— Akhenaton
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Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory,…
— Bill Shankly
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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
— John Philip Sousa
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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient…
— Charles Lyell
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I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my…
— Mark Spitz
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I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open…
— Unknown Author
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Man is not above nature, but in nature.
— Ernst Haeckel
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You have to stay one level above everyone else.
— Jim Otto
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90…
— Alvin Plantinga
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the…
— James Connolly
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There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What…
— M. Russell Ballard
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I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.
— Myla Goldberg
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