Higher Quotes

2933 quotes by 1937 authors

We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House.… — Barack Obama
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is… — Alfred de Vigny
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more… — Deepak Chopra
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not… — Michael Flynn
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly… — Connie Willis
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your… — Yann Martel
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now… — Jack Kerouac
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the… — N. Scott Momaday
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that… — Herman Melville
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip… — John Green
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves… — Jeffrey Eugenides
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion,… — David Guterson
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to… — Zora Neale Hurston
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire

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