High Quotes - page 17

Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth. (Bob Marley)
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. View quote
Virginia Woolf
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. View quote
Virginia Woolf
One of the most potent ways to spiritualize the home is to create a sacred space, an altar, or a room used only for meditation, prayer, or spiritual reading. [...] Your sacred place will become an area of high spiritual vibrations which will affect the entire house, thereby attracting pious personalities. Having a sacred space will also remind you that your home belongs to God and that you are simply the caretaker of it. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low. View quote
Mariah Carey
I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye. View quote
Demi Lovato
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. View quote
Plutarch
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts...the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition. View quote
Carl Jung
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. View quote
Douglas Adams
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. (H. G. Wells)
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex. View quote
Frances Wright
Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively. View quote
Simon Soloveychik
The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart. View quote
Thomas Nashe
We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. View quote
Roger Scruton
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high. View quote
Denis Diderot
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police. View quote
James Russell Lowell
How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them. View quote
Joseph Hall
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal. (George Steiner)
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. View quote
William Wordsworth
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. View quote
Hugo Black