High Points Quotes

• The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

  Chuck Todd

  Scandal, Corruption, Mccain

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• Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Ongoing, Misery

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• I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page

  January Jones

  Wedding, Careers, Depth

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• All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity.

  Ken Wilber

  Past, Reality, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

  Curt Siodmak

  Men, Baths, Culinary

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• Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

  Alex Van Halen

  Boots, Timing, Consciousness

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• I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Too Late, Retrospect, Heard

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• There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

  Peter David

  Fiction, Stories, Happy Endings

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• One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

  Gloria Gaynor

  Winning, Careers, Grammy

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• The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Men, Knowing

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

  Lorna Luft

  School, Careers, Juniors

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir".

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• The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Memories, Winning

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack continuity. I don't apologize. I merely pointed it out, adding with some truth, I feel, that most liaisons lack continuity. We find ourselves in odd places at various times, and for a brief span we link our lives to others and then, our time elapsed, we move apart. Through a haze of pain occasionally, usually through a veil of memory that clings, then passes, sometimes as though we have never touched.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Memories, Moving

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Troublemakers”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

  John Steinbeck

  Years, Mistress, Exaltation

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• A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mountain, Earth, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin

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• The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

  Nancy Farmer

  Nancy Farmer (1996). “A Girl Named Disaster”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

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• Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

  Jasper Fforde

  Taken, Yardsticks, Sometimes

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, America, Together

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books

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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Wickedness, Succeed

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• With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Views, Looks, Spirit

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

  Peter Temple

  Careers, Want Something, People

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• I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

  Robert Hass

  Giving, Want, Lectures

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• When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.

  Jim Beaver

  Kids, Mail, Stuck

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• Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

  Dominick Dunne

  Drama, Ordinary, Want

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