Highest Quotes

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. — Tom Robbins
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his… — John Buchanan Robinson
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. — David Rockefeller
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation… — Mitt Romney
When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own. — Mitt Romney
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. — Helen Rowland
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country. — Marco Rubio
Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications. — Salman Rushdie
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. — John Ruskin
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be… — Bertrand Russell
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism,… — Jonathan Sacks
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights.… — Jonathan Sacks
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. — George Santayana
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. — Albert Schweitzer
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. — Carl Schurz
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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