Higher Quotes - page 15

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. (Derek Jacobi)
And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. View quote
Duane G. Carey
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher. View quote
Dana Spiotta
Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things. View quote
Elisabeth Harnois
I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise. View quote
Elizabeth Emken
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course. View quote
Esa-Pekka Salonen
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. View quote
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. View quote
Eddie Bernice Johnson
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. View quote
Florence Kelley
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions. (Frank Murphy)
We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. View quote
Gilbert N. Lewis
The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream. View quote
Gordon Gee
Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men. View quote
Grace Napolitano
I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years. View quote
Gary Cherone
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own. View quote
Gary David Goldberg
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. View quote
H. C. Bailey
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain. View quote
Hakeem Jeffries
For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. View quote
Henry Norris Russell
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. (Herbert Croly)
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. View quote
Herbert Kaufman
The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small. View quote
Howie Carr
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students. View quote
Hank Johnson
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. View quote
James S. Coleman