Above Quotes

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.