Best Stature Quotes
145 Stature quotes by 129 unique authors
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a…
— William Sloane Coffin
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has…
— Andre Bazin
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My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever…
— Michael Medved
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We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of…
— David Spangler
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.
— Brooks Atkinson
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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
— Branch Rickey
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You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
— Benjamin Franklin Fairless
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Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of…
— Ammianus Marcellinus
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Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
— Antony Jay
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Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t…
— Charles Lee
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In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that…
— Felix Morley
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The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
— Stanley Crouch
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The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature…
— Sam Keen
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Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine…
— Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
— William Sloane Coffin
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The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching…
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature…
— Joy Page
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In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates…
— Ellen G. White
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
— Taylor Caldwell
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