Above Quotes - page 4

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. (John Dryden)
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. View quote
Roald Dahl
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. View quote
Jesse Jackson
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth. View quote
Sun Ra
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. (Paul Bowles)
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. View quote
Albert Pike
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. View quote
William Osler
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success. View quote
James Cameron (director)
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos He will set them above their betters. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. View quote
D. T. Suzuki
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. View quote
William Wordsworth
The budding rose above the rose full blown. View quote
William Wordsworth
A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love. (Swami Vivekananda)
Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. View quote
Lord Byron
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. View quote
Che Guevara
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Those that are above business. View quote
Matthew Henry