Height Quotes
930 quotes by 762 authors
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You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone,…
— Rick Perry
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All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to…
— Tyler Perry
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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
— Peace Pilgrim
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to…
— Pliny the Elder
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The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.
— Ryan Reynolds
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.
— Joe Rogan
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in…
— Salman Rushdie
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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights…
— Jerry Saltz
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
— Sylvester Stallone
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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
— Casey Stengel
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a…
— Laurence Sterne
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,'…
— Tamae Watanabe
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession…
— James Wolcott
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