Height Quotes - Page 25

• You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Pain, Depth, May

  Twitter post from May 18, 2015

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• A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lonely, Sleep, Ice

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.59

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• I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Memories, Light, Sky

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• People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Lying, Thinking

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• Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

  John Henry Newman

  Depth, Way, Wonderful

  'The Dream of Gerontius' (1865)

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• Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

  Peter Drucker

  Elephants, Organization, Agility

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.186, Routledge

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• For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Greatness, Thinking, Two

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1976). “Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose”

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• Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Stars, Pain, Grief

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• Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Fall, Men, Hands

  "Paris Talks". Book by `Abdu'l-Bahá, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1912.

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• To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Mean, Names

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Heart, Men, People

  Oliver Cromwell (1901). “Speeches, 1644-1658”

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• Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Sex, Eye

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Football, Children, Player

  "Thor - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Geoff Johns

  Everyday Things, Long, Overcoming

  Source: collider.com

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• Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.

  Semir Zeki

  Real, Artist, Achievement

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• Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Creativity, Self

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• The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

  Edward Zander

  Thinking, Break, Wells

  "Edward Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.

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• When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spirit, Raises, Offense

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 80, 1992.

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• God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day.

  Nate Robinson

  God, Blessed, Heart

  FaceBook post by Nate Robinson from May 07, 2013

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  No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Perseverance, Art

  William Wilberforce (1834). “A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country; contrasted with real Christianity. With a memoir, by T. Price”

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

  Laozi

  Life, Humility, Men

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• Other heights in other lives, God willing.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Gods Will, Willing

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.693, Pearson Education

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• Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Truth, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Years, Psychics

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