high quotes

• Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. (Ambrose Bierce) [high]
• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. (Albert Einstein) [high/skill/science/art]
• The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (John F. Kennedy) [high/path/path]
• There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die. (Robert Burns) [high]
• A high hope for a low heaven. (William Shakespeare) [high]
• Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [god/high/give/wisdom]
• Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. (Greg Anderson) [high/life/love/creativity]
• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ( Aristotle) [beauty/heavy/high]
• The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work. (Jean Baudrillard) [price/life/high/think]
• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? (William Blake) [imagination/high/more/imagination]
• Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. (William Blake) [high]
• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake) [bird/high/wings]
• A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. (Eileen Caddy) [high/ship]
• Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is to good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. (Eileen Caddy) [high/future/right]
• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. (Thomas Carlyle) [high]
• What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. (Raymond Chandler) [matter/top/high/water]
• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [people/high/life/mankind]
• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. (Charles Caleb Colton) [high/people]
• Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. ( Confucius) [worry/high/position/worry]
• No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes. (Oliver Cromwell) [high]
• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. (Rene Descartes) [high/reach]
• The high note is not the only thing. (Placido Domingo) [high/thing]
• And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way. (Albert Einstein) [high]
• It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. (Albert Einstein) [high/reach]
• The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule... (Albert Einstein) [high]
• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. (George Eliot) [happiness/high/perfect/follow]
• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [high/respect/literature]
• Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [willpower/high/joy/give]
• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [high/culture]
• The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work. (Henry Ford) [high/willpower/system/willpower]
• Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. (William Golding) [high]

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