Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1578 authors
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a…
— Marcel Proust
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For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The two of you together are a menace,†Penelope remarked. “My aim in life,†Lady Danbury announced, “is to be a menace to as great…
— Julia Quinn
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The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can…
— Andrew Murray
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such…
— Markus Zusak
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You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for…
— Robert Musil
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Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just…
— Alyson Noel
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human…
— John Gresham Machen
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The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
— David Viscott
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Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest…
— David Deida
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find…
— Salman Rushdie
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By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
— David Gemmell
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In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when…
— Isaac Marion
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
— William Hazlitt
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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy…
— Henry Miller
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Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward…
— Lauren Kate
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