Best 281 quotes in «height quotes» category

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will always pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination.

Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.