High Quotes
9060 quotes by 5529 authors
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I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball…
— Alonzo Mourning
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When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big…
— Carson Daly
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a…
— Nate Silver
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Now that you're 50, your kids should respect you. After all, you graduated from high school and college without Google or Wikipedia. Happy 50th birthday!
— Mae West
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Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about…
— Sergey Brin
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Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end…
— John Carmack
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To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
— Sylvester Stallone
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We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
— Lloyd Alexander
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The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,…
— Saint Augustine
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo… to give a voice to…
— Shirley Chisholm
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels…
— Angela Carter
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Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
— Martin Amis
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Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to…
— Will Self
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Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an…
— Samuel Adams
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I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from…
— Terry Pratchett
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Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the…
— Orson Scott Card
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
— Gary Larson
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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly…
— Henry Fielding
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
— Chinua Achebe
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