Height Quotes - Page 33

• Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

  Nelson Mandela

  Israel, Lebanon, West

  "Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel" by Suzanne Belling, jweekly.com, October 22, 1999.

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• Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Ocean, Space

  Charles Darwin (2006). “Voyage of the Beagle”, p.548, National Geographic Books

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Fall, Men, Healthy

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• Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

  Epictetus

  Principles, Size, Reason

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.43

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• I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

  Cy Twombly

  Hate, Cutting, Garden

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• For though, in nature, depth and height
  Are equally held infinite:
  In poetry, the height we know;
  'Tis only infinite below.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beauty, Art, Depth

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.654

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• Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Thinking, Numbers, Rising

  "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."

  Mary Ellen W. Smoot

  Wall, Home, Roots

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• It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.

  Heather Mills

  High Heels, Important, Legs

  "From Lady Mucca ... to Mrs Whippy". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

  Ken Bruen

  Tarantino, Dialogue, Quentin

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• For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

  Debby Ryan

  Wise, Shoes, Feet

  "The Suite Life's Debby Ryan Talks Prom!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 18, 2011.

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• The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Determination, Block

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• If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

  Anuj

  Organization, Growth, Teammate

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• Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.

  Herman Bavinck

  Christian, Tree, Church

  Herman Bavinck (2003). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena”, p.79, Baker Academic

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• Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

  Jaron Lanier

  Photography, Jobs, Class

  "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.

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• Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!

  Robert Montgomery

  Fall, Clouds, Echoes

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

  Madeleine Albright

  High Heels, Politics, Ranking

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• One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

  Zoroaster

  Heart, Meditation, Heaven

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• I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

  George Washington

  Religious, Regret, Spring

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• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Eight, Years, People

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• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Flower, Long, Joy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Depth

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• On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Valleys, Imagine, Human Condition

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• On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winter, People, Valleys

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy, Maximilian A. Mügge, Robert Guppy (1911). “The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation”

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• Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Mean, Feelings

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

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