Height Quotes
930 quotes by 762 authors
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black…
— Michelle Alexander
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Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,…
— Michelle Alexander
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Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of…
— Robert Thurman
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Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much…
— Alan Judd
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Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk…
— Charles Barron
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With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to…
— Will Schwalbe
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Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified,…
— Chiaki Kuriyama
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The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.
— Yukito Kishiro
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Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true…
— Erica Jong
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Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.
— Zig Ziglar
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The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.
— Galen Rowell
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Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with…
— Li Bai
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An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.
— Harold Klemp
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You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why...…
— Marita Bonner
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The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the…
— James Ramsey Ullman
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Life is a journey. Â Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then…
— Daniel Burrus
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To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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