Highest Order Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,…
— Max Nordau
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
— Will Rogers
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of…
— James Madison
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who…
— Bill Nighy
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The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is…
— Aidan Kavanagh
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the…
— Fanny Kemble
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