Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1578 authors
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The gull sees farthest who flies highest
— Richard Bach
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a dream can be the highest point of a life
— Ben Okri
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination;…
— E E Cummings
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Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,…
— Mark Doty
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
— Paul Johnson
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If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I'm the new Oberjarl." I knew it," said Halt instantly, and the other three looked at him, totally scandalized. You did?" Erak asked, his voice…
— John Flanagan
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick…
— Margaret Fuller
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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
— Harper Lee
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What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets…
— Booker T. Washington
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Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask…
— Swami Satchidananda
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you…
— Anais Nin
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Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
— Napoleon Hill
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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The…
— Haruki Murakami
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
— Samuel Johnson
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[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens…
— Christopher Hitchens
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