High Quotes
9060 quotes by 5529 authors
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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
— Albert Bandura
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Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life…
— Hannah Arendt
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The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
— Clint Dempsey
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The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.
— Hassanal Bolkiah
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You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but…
— Aristophanes
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
— Homer
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Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
— Sappho
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Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and…
— Sappho
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see…
— Unknown Author
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The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must…
— John F. Kennedy
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It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues…
— John F. Kennedy
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my…
— E. L. James
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
— E. L. James
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Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to…
— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something…
— Lance Bass
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The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions…
— Bob Fosse
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The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not…
— Isadora Duncan
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My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
— Thom Yorke
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The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14…
— John Grisham
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Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able…
— Wesley Clark
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