Higher Quotes - Page 25

• My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

  Paul Klee

  Dark, Hands, Spheres

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• The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

  George Eliot

  Lawlessness, Revolution, Rebellion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Degrees, Doe

  Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.31, Random House

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• I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Laughter, Humanity, Survival

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• All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Order, Ruins, Mystery

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.153, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way, and it hit the floor inches from where she'd been standing, leaving a sizable dent in the floor. A second later Jace's arms were around her and he was lifting her off her feet. She was too surprized to struggle as he carried her over to the broken window and dumped her unceremoniously out of it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Struggle, Fall, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1004, Simon and Schuster

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• We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Hateful, Tyranny

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• I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH.

  Kristin Cashore

  Believe, Mean, Goal

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• The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fall, Want You Back

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, President

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• In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

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• Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Important, Going Away

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and rolled off onto the floor. And laughed. "Let's do that again! But this time I'll jump even higher." "No! No,you won't! What are you going here?" He sat up on the floor and shrugged. "I was bored." "I don't care! I'm not your babysitter!" His blue eyes twinkled.Honestly, whose eyes actually twinkle? Then his face crumpled,his lower lip jutting out.He blinked his ridiculously long eyelashes at me. "I thought we were friends." "Oh,knock it off.

  Kiersten White

  Eye, Blue, Bored

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• When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

  Roberto Bolano

  Book, Thinking, Squares

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• So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

  Sharon Shinn

  Kings, Stupid, Men

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• You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unseen, Beauty Of Life, Handle

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.131, Penguin

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• For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hands, Unseen, World

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

  Frank Beddor

  Revenge, Enemy, Survival

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• The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Moon, Men

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, Insecurity, Selfishness

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• It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Self, Should, Appeals

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• It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Light, Self, Cherish

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)

  Erich Segal

  Suicide, Doctors, Eight

  Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!

  Graham Chapman

  Running, Cutting, Two

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