Best Stature Sayings
145 Stature quotes by 129 unique authors
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A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that…
— John C. Wright
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally…
— Chiaki Kuriyama
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We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
— Paul Kurtz
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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him…
— John George Nicolay
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Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the…
— Julius Evola
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When he finished up with the Twins and even after he was done, he was always down on the field, so I had a chance…
— Tony Clark
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some…
— Aaron Scharf
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I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
— Paul Simon
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As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory,…
— W. Clement Stone
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Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought…
— Mike Mentzer
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From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its…
— James Russell Lowell
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When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up on the top…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing…
— Sheri L. Dew
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Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.
— William Shakespeare
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The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the…
— Lamar Alexander
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We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther…
— Bernard of Chartres
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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
— Joseph Campbell
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
— Peter De Vries
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease…
— Charles Lamb
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the…
— Charles Lamb
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