Height Quotes

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Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and… — George Edward Woodberry
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the… — George Edward Woodberry
A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of… — Tiger Woods
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. — Steven Wright
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the… — Florenz Ziegfeld
Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. — Helen Fisher
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat,… — Dag Hammarskjold
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence,… — John Milton
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.… — Walt Disney
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods… — Albert Camus
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even… — Khalil Gibran
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions… — Cornel West
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love — Clarence Jordan
Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that… — Jane Austen
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on… — Czeslaw Milosz
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to… — Franz Kafka
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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