Elevated Quotes

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. (Robin Morgan)
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. View quote
Franz Kafka
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. View quote
Mark Strand
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. View quote
Shelley Berman
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness . View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. (George Washington)
If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers. View quote
Matthew Arnold
...the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. View quote
Richard Cobden
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif. View quote
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden. View quote
Russell Baker
The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems” come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God. View quote
Meister Eckhart
When it comes to the insightful reading of such passages that comes via the elevated sense, we shall not beg to differ at all about its name-whether one wishes to call it tropologia, allegoria, or anything else-but only about whether it contains meanings that are beneficial. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director. (Famke Janssen)
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. View quote
Ferdinand Porsche
The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals. View quote
Harry Martinson
Hi, Mom...Yes, I know my heart rate's dangerously elevated. That sound? I'm being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health. View quote
Joel Fuhrman