Height Quotes - Page 16

• Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

  Robert Boyle

  Glory, Rate, Bottom

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• The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ideas, People, Arrogance

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• Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Past, Goal, Suggestions

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• I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

  Andy Warhol

  Hate, Firsts

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.

  Boy George

  New York, Culture, Going Out

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

  David Wain

  College, Media, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

  Allison Janney

  Hurt, Men, People

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• The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Employment, Free Market

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.

  Richard Ebeling

  Opportunity, Unique, Play

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• Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Humility, Support

  Hugh Ross (2010). “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is”, p.41, Baker Books

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• The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

  Oswald Chambers

  Valleys, Drudgery

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.40, Discovery House

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• It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Artist, Common Folk, Olympus

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• I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

  Josh Young

  Powerful, Latin, Rap

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• Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivation, Love Is, Men

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• Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Thinking, Doors

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• I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Teenage, Pregnancy, Boys

  "School as Wonder, or Way Out" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2012.

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• As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.

  Andrew Soltis

  Player, Games, Chess

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• Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Media, Sea, Npr

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• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  Jackie Evancho

  High Heels, Long, Giving

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• Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Night, Echoes

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1911). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

  Henry Rollins

  New Year, Years, Lists

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• Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

  Philip Neri

  Men, Desire, May

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.33, St Athanasius Press

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• Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Photography, Men, Genius

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• People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

  Julia Roberts

  Average, People, Guy

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• As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

  Eric Balfour

  Artist, Always Trying, Done

  Source: collider.com

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