Highest Quotes

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.