High Quotes - page 3

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. (Anzia Yezierska)
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. View quote
Vitruvius
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. View quote
Thomas J. Sargent
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends. View quote
Zoe Kravitz
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. (Kevin Mitnick)
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. View quote
Edmund Waller
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. View quote
Charlie Parker
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. View quote
Bill Clinton
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. View quote
George Eliot
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
Edmund Burke
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. (Wallace Stevens)
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. View quote
Martin Feldstein
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. View quote
Maya Angelou
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