Elevated Quotes

155 quotes by 146 authors

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul… — Bertrand Russell
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated… — Peter Calthorpe
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most… — Clement Greenberg
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question… — Gerald Holton
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. — Samuel Johnson
Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that… — Brad Warner
The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that… — Harry Martinson
Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state... — Mary Martha Sherwood
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a… — Donald Judd
The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to… — Rich Mullins
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. — William Winwood Reade
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains… — Edward E. Barnard
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads… — Nikola Tesla
In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. Theyâ€™re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinarinessâ€¦Itâ€™s not so much to ask, I said.… — Anatole Broyard
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech â€” a slightly elevated and concentrated form. — Thomas Boswell
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and… — Shelley Berman
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than… — Ada Louise Huxtable
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what… — Victor Hugo
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and… — Sheri S. Tepper

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