Higher Quotes

2933 quotes by 1937 authors

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen… — Oscar Wilde
Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some… — Les Brown
If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and Iâ€™d be killed. An honorable death… — Frank Beddor
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation… — Joseph Conrad
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should… — Catherynne M. Valente
I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or… — Veronica Roth
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set… — Joshua Chamberlain
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.… — Erich Segal
First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so… — Graham Chapman
You decent?â€ I pulled the towel up a little higher. â€œYes, if my wrinkled toes donâ€™t offend.â€ Marcoâ€™s swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. â€œNaw,… — Karen Chance
Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out. — J. G. Ballard
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal… — Jo Nesbo
Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainmentâ€¦is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction… — C.S. Lewis
There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to you, all the… — Swami Vivekananda
The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle… — Tove Jansson
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of… — Marcus Aurelius
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. — Ford Madox Ford
Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate. — Lena Dunham
You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them â€” I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my… — Tamora Pierce

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