Higher Quotes - page 2

Swifter, higher, stronger. (Pierre de Coubertin)
Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level. View quote
Enrico Fermi
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. View quote
Horace Mann
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. View quote
Maurice Ashley
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. View quote
Cicero
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. (Dolph Lundgren)
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. View quote
John Dryden
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. View quote
Jesse Ventura
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. View quote
George McGovern
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things. View quote
Henry Fielding
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
Jane Austen
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. (John W. Campbell)
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The higher your station, the less your liberty. View quote
Sallust