Height Quotes
930 quotes by 762 authors
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
— Robert Jordan
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My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things…
— Alice Hoffman
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories,…
— Albert Camus
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there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
— Karen Armstrong
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to…
— Sigmund Freud
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And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him…
— J R Ward
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Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
— Dean Young
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What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and…
— Carl Jung
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Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was…
— R.K. Narayan
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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...
— Stephen King
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I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think…
— Laini Taylor
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high…
— Malala Yousafzai
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
— Seneca the Younger
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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
— Jascha Heifetz
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history…
— Victor Hugo
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The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can…
— August Bournonville
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The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
— August Bournonville
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...
— William Osler
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