High Quotes
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It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about (High Quotes)
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value (High Quotes)
I can’t remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers (High Quotes)
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant (High Quotes)
Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour (High Quotes)
Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture (High Quotes)
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else (High Quotes)
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self (High Quotes)
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this (High Quotes)
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us (High Quotes)
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience (High Quotes)
You’d think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I’ve had broken bones that didn’t hurt as bad (High Quotes)
... it is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance (High Quotes)
There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction (High Quotes)
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims (High Quotes)
The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds (High Quotes)
Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it (High Quotes)
Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It’s a chance to rebuild your image (High Quotes)
I have high expectations for myself. I’m not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship (High Quotes)
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began (High Quotes)
Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read (High Quotes)
The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools (High Quotes)
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you (High Quotes)
There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold (High Quotes)
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high (High Quotes)
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture (High Quotes)
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them (High Quotes)
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth (High Quotes)
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes! (High Quotes)
Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can’t stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness (High Quotes)