Height Quotes - Page 20

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

  Doug Flutie

  Nfl, Issues, Bias

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• I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

  Kirby Puckett

  Stars, Heart, Games

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• When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

  Meher Baba

  Love Is, Mess

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• Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

  George Best

  Stars, Fighting, Player

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• Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Wings, People

  Simón Bolívar, José Luis Salcedo-Bastardo (1983). “The hope of the universe”, United Nations Educational

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• Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

  Lynn Hill

  Climbing

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• Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Sports, Struggle, Rocks

  Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Stars, Science, Views

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• Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Eye, Meditation

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• I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.

  Lindy Booth

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Eye

  "The Super Lindy Booth". Interview with John Taylor, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.

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• We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Science, Sight, Progress

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

  Augustus William Hare

  Inspirational, Valleys, Mist

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.185

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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• The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

  Robert Mayer

  Fall, Science, Water

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• Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.

  Simon T. Bailey

  Thinking, Circles, Challenges

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• Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Real, Sunshine, Night

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• There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Sight, Agreement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Israel, Lebanon, West

  "Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel" by Suzanne Belling, jweekly.com, October 22, 1999.

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• Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Ocean, Space

  Charles Darwin (2006). “Voyage of the Beagle”, p.548, National Geographic Books

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Fall, Men, Healthy

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

  Epictetus

  Principles, Size, Reason

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.43

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• I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

  Cy Twombly

  Hate, Cutting, Garden

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• For though, in nature, depth and height
  Are equally held infinite:
  In poetry, the height we know;
  'Tis only infinite below.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beauty, Art, Depth

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.654

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• Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Thinking, Numbers, Rising

  "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."

  Mary Ellen W. Smoot

  Wall, Home, Roots

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