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High Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was…
- A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high…
- ...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.
- I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take…
More High Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
- I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about… — Michael Kirby
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for… — Michele Bachmann