Higher Quotes

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I'd go for it!

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.