High Quotes - page 4

If You Have Less Than Three Friends in High School, You're in Good Shape. (Gerard Way)
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
Joseph Addison
There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Ronald Fisher
I argued more recently for a hypothecated wealth tax on very high earners to support the campaign against child poverty. Why shouldn't the super-rich be obliged to help the super-poor?
Anthony Giddens
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world hereshould he need the next, Let the world mind him This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.
Robert Browning
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
Cicely Tyson
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Ken Kesey
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations.
Kay Redfield Jamison
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
Clifford D. Simak
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. (Tom Stoppard)
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran Lebowitz
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Woodrow Wilson
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
Rudyard Kipling
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
Bernard Mandeville
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
Chris Rock
The Moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night.
William Blake
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. (Anatole France)
if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success.
James Cameron (director)
Sleep is when all unsorted stuff comes as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
James Russell Lowell
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
William Wordsworth