Best 281 quotes in «height quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

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

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 on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

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

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

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

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

On every mountain height is rest.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.