Height Quotes
930 quotes by 762 authors
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I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel…
— Cory Doctorow
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
— Jodi Picoult
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Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It…
— Mariama Bâ
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One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall
— C.E. Murphy
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...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
— Janet Fitch
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Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights.…
— Elie Wiesel
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You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did…
— Victoria Alexander
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s…
— Cecelia Ahern
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This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of…
— Michel Houellebecq
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She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was…
— E. M. Forster
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Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there…
— Amy Carmichael
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Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.
— Ilona Andrews
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Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when…
— Shannon Hale
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I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be…
— Rick Riordan
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Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would…
— Wernher von Braun
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strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!
— Leslie Feinberg
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