Above Quotes - page 84

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. (Benjamin E. Mays)
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. View quote
Bernard Barton
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. View quote
Bernard M. Oliver
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. View quote
Charles Edison
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. View quote
Charles Sturt
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude. View quote
Charlie Pierce
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me. View quote
Cam Gigandet
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.' View quote
Chris Isaak
We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it. View quote
Christine Feehan
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate. View quote
Claire Messud
In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity. (Colin Angle)
Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it. View quote
Corey Hart
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good. View quote
David Ulevitch
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds. View quote
Dejan Stojanovic
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. View quote
Ellen Key
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law. View quote
Eric Schneiderman
David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now. View quote
Ethan Suplee
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. View quote
Ezra Cornell
The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn. View quote
Eddie Marsan
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth. (Edward Thomson)
I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear. View quote
Fred Upton
Sometimes you have to go above the law. View quote
Fawn Hall
Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within. View quote
Flower A. Newhouse
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling. View quote
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