Stature Quotes

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. (Thomas Carlyle)
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size? View quote
John le Carré
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
William Wordsworth
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings. View quote
Vitruvius
Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. View quote
Branch Rickey
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature. View quote
Margaret Mead
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility. (Lionel Trilling)
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals]. View quote
Gloria Estefan
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. View quote
Camille Paglia
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. View quote
Arnold Bennett
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment. View quote
Carl Jung
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. View quote
Mary Shelley
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. View quote
Edward Young
The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. (Antony Jay)
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. View quote
Jack Miller
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. View quote
John George Nicolay
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? View quote
Joy Page
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature. View quote
Maria Menounos