Oliver Sykes (Oliver Scott "Oli" Sykes) Quotes

The higher I get the lower I sink.

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• I think higher education is over-regulated.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Think
  • Education
  • Higher

• They need a new community on higher ground.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Community
  • Ground
  • Higher

• I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Faces
  • Higher
  • Stubborn

• In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Future

• You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Expectations
  • Higher

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• Once the flames begin to catch the wind will blow it higher, oh Biko, Biko.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Wind
  • Blow
  • Higher

• The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Knowledge
  • Higher
  • Each Day

• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Responsible
  • Higher
  • Standard

• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Higher
  • Sake
  • Plants

• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

  

  William Osler
  • Teaching
  • Profession
  • Standards

• I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Higher

• There is a higher law than the Constitution.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Higher

• One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Facts
  • Higher
  • Behave

• We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

  

  Al-Kindi
  • Values
  • Generations
  • Ashamed

• Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • High
  • Higher
  • Low

• That's higher than it got on the charts the first time

  

  Rodney Terence "Rod" Argent Argent
  • Higher
  • Charts

• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Higher
  • Unimportant

• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  

  Walter Wink
  • People
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • God
  • Together
  • Pain

• I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

  

  Gerard Depardieu
  • Heart
  • Body
  • Drink

• The higher I get the lower I sink.

  

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