High Places Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
— Neil Peart
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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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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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Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor.…
— Cesar Chavez
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Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according…
— Sun Tzu
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I can't jump high, so I jump from high places.
— Mick Foley
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A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and…
— Kristian Birkeland
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I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in…
— Billy Graham
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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever…
— Rick Bayan
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Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or…
— Gertrude Stein
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It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced…
— Elinor Lipman
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[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main…
— Rebecca Solnit
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In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards…
— Rob Parker
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People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore,…
— Carlisle Floyd
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Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the…
— George McGovern
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Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go…
— John Climacus
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One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something…
— Thomas Sowell
Who Wrote These High Places Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 44 High Places Quotes, led by these top contributors: