Elevation Quotes - page 3

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. (Abraham Lincoln)
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. View quote
Seamus Heaney
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race. View quote
Susan Vreeland
To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace. View quote
Ben Macintyre
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary. View quote
John Medina
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
My view as a Chinese is that Obama's elevation to the position of 44th president of the United States underscores teh greatness of the American system. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
For Bréal, semantics was the science the subject matter of which was study of the cause and structure of the processes of changes in meanings of words: expansion and contraction of meanings, transfer of meanings, elevation and degradation of their value, etc. Such a delineation of semantics as a branch of linguistics is maintained to this day, for all the differences between the various schools in linguistics. Such degree of uniformity is not confined to the definition of semantics alone. Not all authors give such a definition; some of them approach the issue from a different point of view as regards general classification... but all schools of linguistics engage in the study of the meanings of words and their changes. Thus all of them, in one way or another, engage in semantics as understood by Breal. View quote
Adam Schaff
I just felt like God picked me up in his arms [and said], 'Johnnie Ray, I love you', and kissed me. I'm very humble and grateful for this elevation to the big time. But we all have to come down, and it won't leave me with a complex if I do. I know this thing might go over like a lead balloon, but I can always go back to that movie extra deal. (Johnnie Ray)
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts. View quote
Lawrence Hargrave
What wealth it is to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Contempt of all outward things, which come in competition with duty, fulfills the ideal of human greatness. This conviction, that readiness to sacrifice life's highest material good and life itself, is essential to the elevation of human nature, is no illusion of ardent youth, nor outburst of blind enthusiasm. It does not yield to growing wisdom. It is confirmed by all experience. It is sanctioned by conscience - that universal and eternal lawgiver whose chief dictate is, that every thing must be yielded up for the right. View quote
William Ellery Channing
To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer. View quote
Petrarch
The elevation of the belief in being white was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, first and foremost, to deny you and me the right to secure and govern our own bodies. View quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist. View quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates
He also compares his being raised upon the cross to the elevation of the serpent in the wilderness, and to seed buried in the ground, as necessary to its future increase. But all these representations are quite foreign to anything in the doctrine of atonement. View quote
Joseph Priestley
We more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Christianity has found its triumphs and shown its fruits in every nation and tribe upon the globe; and its results have been in every case the same. Virtue, social order, prosperity, blessedness, the elevation and improvement, in all respects, of the human life, are the uniform and exclusive inheritance of those who receive the gospel. View quote
Julius Hawley Seelye
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules of composition it produces vigilance rather than elevation rather prevents loss than procures advantage and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. (Samuel Johnson)
The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. View quote
George Washington
The objects of instruction in purely scientific mechanics and physics are, first, to produce in the student that improvement of the understanding which results from the cultivation of natural knowledge, and that elevation of mind which flows from the contemplation of the order of the universe. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults. View quote
Camille Paglia
There is no doubt that Sheik Osama bin Laden has a high level of faithfulness, trustworthiness, and transparency. He is faithful to his religion and to Jihad for the elevation of the word of Allah...This man has a pure, honest and believing personality. He defends all that belongs to Islam and who renounces anything that is not Islamic. View quote
Fathi Yakan