High Quotes - page 2

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. (Hideki Tōjō)
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. View quote
Henry James
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. View quote
George S. Patton
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. View quote
George S. Patton
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. View quote
Marvin Bower
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. View quote
Marvin Bower
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world. View quote
George Foreman
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. View quote
Robert Browning
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. View quote
Angela Carter
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. View quote
George H. W. Bush
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. (Katherine Mansfield)
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! View quote
Dr. Seuss
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. View quote
Arnold Bennett
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise. View quote
Philip Massinger
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. View quote
Edward de Bono
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. View quote
Douglas Adams
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! View quote
Miley Cyrus
No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes. (Oliver Cromwell)
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. View quote
Stephen Spender
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. View quote
Max Beerbohm
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. View quote
Robert H. Jackson