Higher Quotes
2933 quotes by 1937 authors
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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him…
— Emile Durkheim
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
— Albert Camus
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Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is…
— James Frey
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to…
— Novalis
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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
— Ayn Rand
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Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
— Debbie Macomber
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.
— Elvis Presley
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I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find…
— John Kennedy Toole
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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated.…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and…
— Julia Cameron
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Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you…
— Lisa Kleypas
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What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are…
— James Patterson
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An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and…
— James F. Cooper
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who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should…
— E E Cummings
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Aim higher in case you fall short.
— Suzanne Collins
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I’ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I don’t know. I think those two guys you were with would…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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