High Road Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

  Jeremy Piven

  Running, Long, Tough

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

  Billy Gibbons

  Song, Driven, Process

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• ...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cold, Century

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• The government should be actively enforcing the high road.

  Jared Bernstein

  Government, Should

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• Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Long, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military. Published from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, by Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.164

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• Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

  Jodi Kantor

  Want, Taking The High Road

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• Which will you take, the high road or the low road?" "Which one is longer?" "They're both short.

  Yasutaka Tsutsui

  Taking The High Road, Lows

  Yasutaka Tsutsui, Evan Emswiler (2007). “Hell”

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• Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

  Samuel Johnson

  Noble, Lapland, Norway

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 425 (6 July 1763)

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• In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Views, Small Villages

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• Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

  Ferdinand Lundberg

  United States, Royal, Crime

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• I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.

  Aziz Ansari

  Taken, People, Parks And Recreation

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". Parks and Recreation, 2009–2015.

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• I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

  Tim Gunn

  Noses, Cases

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Sight, Dying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.64, Macmillan

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• I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

  Gabrielle Union

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I remember my mentor once said, "The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take the high road." I think that people are hungry for content that enriches and expires. You can entertain people while still expanding their horizons. You don't have to have it be a race to the bottom with reality television.

  Jason Silva

  Reality, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Flower, Book

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.208, Race Point Pub

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

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• Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Pain, Keys, Play

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and you will see that there is a big discrepancy and there really is no going back and forth, my wife sometimes I mean you eventually you have to say something, enough is enough, but the truth is she has always taken the high road.

  Eddie Cibrian

  Taken, Mean, Wife

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• Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

  Phil McGraw

  Taking The High Road, Traffic

  "Dr. Phil’s Dos and Don’ts For Co-Parenting With Your Ex". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

  Hugh Panaro

  Growing Up, Dad, Father

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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  Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Love Is, Emotion, Taking The High Road

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.140, Macmillan

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• I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.

  Curtis Joseph

  Appreciate, Wonder

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• Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?

  Lewis Foreman Day

  Art, Hands, Grace

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