Height Quotes

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The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins… — Rabindranath Tagore
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the… — George MacDonald
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood… — Percy Jewett Burrell
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find… — Emile M. Cioran
It was a murky confusion â€” here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel â€” of flying… — Charles Dickens
Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel… — Mark Canton
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal. — William Hazlitt
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture. — Jesse Jackson
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many… — Sri Chinmoy
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. — Seneca the Younger
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and… — Thomas Szasz
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never… — Margot Asquith
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. — Leonardo da Vinci
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens. — Colleen McCullough
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him. — Germaine Greer
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and… — Julian Barnes
I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight… — Jeannette Walls
It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps… — James Agee

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