Height Quotes
930 quotes by 762 authors
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The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her…
— Kim Harrison
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Puck turned to Sabrina. "What is she doing down there?" Hiding, I guess." Puck leaned down and poked his head under the seat. "I found…
— Michael Buckley
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People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping…
— Franz Kafka
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a…
— Saint Augustine
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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures,…
— Anne Lamott
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Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it…
— Pablo Neruda
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We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the…
— Richard Matheson
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The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was…
— Robertson Davies
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I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with…
— Kiersten White
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The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer:…
— Paulo Coelho
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I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.
— Marlon Brando
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We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie,…
— Lauren Oliver
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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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