Height Quotes - Page 3

• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

  Edward Gorey

  Would Be, Folly

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• Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

  Lucretius

  Men, Wickedness, Literature

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• I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

  Allison Janney

  Men, Threatened, I Can

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• In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

  William Ames

  Perfection, Joy, Contentment

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• Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Depth, Path, Lowest

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.146

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Pakistan, Sides, Glory

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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• The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

  Pliny the Elder

  Failure, Adversity, Darkness

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Patriotic, Pride

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

  Albert Einstein

  Ignorance, Character, Heroic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Team, Chess Game

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• We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

  Ruth St. Denis

  Mountain, Denial, World

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• To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

  Jean Genet

  Taste, Harmony, Elegance

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Air, Feet

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• Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Sadness

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• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Writing, Fiction

  "B is for bestseller". www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  Irving Langmuir

  Literature, International

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• Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

  Jim Bolger

  Issues, Support, Democracy

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• The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  People, Faces, Heroism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

  Dudley Moore

  Class, Noses, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Play, Piano, Guests

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

  Henry Bessemer

  Years, Feet, Energy

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Weight, Gravity

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.124, University of Chicago Press

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• I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Thinking, Literature

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