Best 281 quotes in «height quotes» category

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

'Summer Heights High' is one of my favourite shows of all time. I'm obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

The deep of your maturity determines the height of your marriage.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

The other day, I was walking my dog around my building . . . on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.