High Quotes

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While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those… — Michael Parenti
I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little… — Linda Ronstadt
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly… — Unknown Author
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are… — Edmund Wilson
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too… — Alexander Hamilton
The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these… — Margaret Beckett
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests,… — Jonathon Porritt
Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the… — David Miliband
Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company… — Unknown Author
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also… — Aristotle
It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our… — Albert Einstein
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. — Kurt Vonnegut
I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up. — Cheryl Wheeler
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes… — Billy Crystal
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the… — William Hazlitt
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. — Leonard Cohen
However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself -… — John of the Cross
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get… — Lauryn Hill
The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many… — Peter Davenport

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