High Quotes
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An orphan’s curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man’s eye! (High Quotes)
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea (High Quotes)
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly (High Quotes)
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth (High Quotes)
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell (High Quotes)
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue (High Quotes)
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high (High Quotes)
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well (High Quotes)
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws (High Quotes)
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances (High Quotes)
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man’s desires (High Quotes)
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car (High Quotes)
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them (High Quotes)
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest (High Quotes)
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider (High Quotes)
As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it’s on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It’s this wonderful little high every time (High Quotes)
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was (High Quotes)
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver’s permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one’s car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power (High Quotes)
I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn’t really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things (High Quotes)
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you’re moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally (High Quotes)
I didn’t start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that (High Quotes)
You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around (High Quotes)
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I’m stuck with them (High Quotes)
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in (High Quotes)
I wish I was more stupid because I’m either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I’m a bit morbid. There’s never anything in between (High Quotes)
People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs (High Quotes)
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting (High Quotes)
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else (High Quotes)
My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time (High Quotes)
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students (High Quotes)