High Quotes
9060 quotes by 5529 authors
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
— Sally Ride
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It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!
— Tom Ridge
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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs…
— Charles Simmons
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself…
— Susan Sontag
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My mom was a garage sale person, save money. Come on in to the garage sale, you might find a shirt. She'd get in that…
— Louie Anderson
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.
— Felix Baumgartner
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A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized…
— Napoleon Hill
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion…
— Sissela Bok
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
— William Golding
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the…
— Philip Sidney
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long…
— Frances M. Young
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We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there . . . he was very tall and…
— Cameron Diaz
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high.…
— Maya Angelou
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me…
— George Bernard Shaw
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
— Samuel Johnson
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