Height Quotes - Page 27

• What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

  Roy Harper

  Wicked, Hearing

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• "Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

  Umberto Eco

  Life, Home, Abandoned

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiration, Self, Jewels

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• When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

  Edvard Munch

  Thinking, Order, People

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• Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Men, Wings

  Hector Berlioz (1884). “Autobiography of Hector Berlioz: Member of the Institute of France, from 1803 to 1865. Comprising His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England”

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• The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heart, Color, Water

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• One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new depth and a new height. It's one of those things about beauty. You can't capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you, I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it's not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it's a creed that points up to a beauty that's beyond anybody's grasp.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Humble, Thinking, Vision

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• A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

  George Gershwin

  Emotional, Triumph, Machines

  "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

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• Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

  Casey Stengel

  Humorous, Order, Profound

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• The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.

  Woody Hayes

  Beach, Winning, Ohio

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• The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.

  William Ernest Bowman

  Average, Sea, Feet

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• I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Work Out, Trying, Depth

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• Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

  Ayn Rand

  Greed, Citizens, Gang

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.167, Penguin

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• Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, Lust

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• Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.

  Luce Irigaray

  Ocean, Men, Land

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• Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Pain, Memories, Scar

  Ivan Goncharov (2006). “Oblomov: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Gold, Tasks

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

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• I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

  Brendan Grace

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wisdom, Storm, Weight

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.338

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

  Selena Fox

  Kings, Queens, Spring

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• The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

  Doug Flutie

  Nfl, Issues, Bias

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• I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

  Kirby Puckett

  Stars, Heart, Games

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• When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

  Meher Baba

  Love Is, Mess

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• Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

  George Best

  Stars, Fighting, Player

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