Height Quotes

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Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a… — Anatoli Boukreev
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. — Edward Burnett Tylor
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with… — Bertrand Russell
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther… — Bernard of Chartres
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but… — Seneca the Younger
The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0Â°… — Robert Mayer
Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success. — Simon T. Bailey
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in… — Emily Greene Balch
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan… — Nelson Mandela
Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a… — Charles Darwin
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the… — Tony Judt
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. — Epictetus
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the… — Cy Twombly
Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree… — Mary Ellen W. Smoot
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He… — Lynette Fromme

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