Higher Quotes
2933 quotes by 1937 authors
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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see…
— Yann Martel
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls…
— Jay-Z
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Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so…
— Scott Westerfeld
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I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and…
— Queen Latifah
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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the…
— Colum McCann
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Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution…
— Richard Dawkins
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at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one…
— Cecelia Ahern
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In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of…
— Elizabeth Berg
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James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he…
— Laini Taylor
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To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
— Dante Alighieri
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The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
— Virginia Woolf
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Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him…
— Jennifer Crusie
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like…
— Rajneesh
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By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock…
— Albert Hofmann
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Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
— R. Scott Bakker
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Kylie watched as his shirttail upward, exposing a very hard abdomen. The hem of his shirt inched higher, and she took in the cutest inny…
— C.C. Hunter
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