Height Quotes - Page 17

• Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

  Michael R. Burch

  Taken, Principles, Depth

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• It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, White, Tragedy

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

  Os Guinness

  Men, Depth, Forget

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.

  James Stalker

  Memories, Fall, Mean

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• 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.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Israel, Withdrawal

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• We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Doe, Compromise, Term

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• People talk about discipline, but to me, there's discipline and there's self-discipline. Discipline is listening to people tell you what to do, where to be, and how to do something. Self-discipline is knowing that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life; you are the only one who can take yourself to the desired heights.

  Mike Shanahan

  Self, Knowing, Discipline

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• I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

  Philip K. Dick

  Powerful, Book, Writing

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• I never planned to be at the height of my career when I was 30 years old and going to my fourth Olympics. I watched the 1998 Olympics when I was 14 years old. That's what I wanted to do with my life. I thought I might have a shot at three Olympics max. This is way beyond the parameters of what I set out to do.

  Kelly Clark

  Years, Careers, Max

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.

  Carly Fiorina

  Hypocrisy, President, Firsts

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.91, Penguin

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• Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Country, Moving, Office

  "The Top 5 Dos and Don'ts of the Week: Including the Best Video... and the Worst Man" by Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Self, Certain, Taxes

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• For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

  Ruth Westheimer

  Feet, People, Metaphor

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  War, Men, Rights

  "Scientology and the Search for Significance", www.beliefnet.com.

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• The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Hatred, Here And There

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Men, Names

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• Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Lonely, Stars

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• The depths of the self are the heights of God.

  James Finley

  Self, Depth

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

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Maturity, Determine

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• When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

  B. B. King

  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.

  Brett Lee

  Team, Matter, Facts

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• Heights don't bother me...It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

  Jason Marsden

  Fall, Skulls, Freak

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• Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

  Robert Boyle

  Glory, Rate, Bottom

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• The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ideas, People, Arrogance

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