High Quotes

• The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Peace

• Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • Women
  • High
  • Promise

• Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • School
  • College
  • Financial

• A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

  

  Arthur Baer
  • High
  • Library

• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Why
  • America

• There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

  

  Louis Navellier
  • High
  • Independent
  • Stock

• In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Knowledge

• I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

  

  Lauren London
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

  

  Ananda Krishnan
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Time
  • Mind
  • School

• Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

  

  Frederick Locker-Lampson
  • High
  • Hope

• Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • High
  • Violence
  • Motivated

• Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.

  

  Janet Mock
  • High

• I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Country
  • Political
  • Reach

• I don't really believe in cardio. I train with a very high intensity, which in turn gives it an aerobic effect. I like to use anaerobic resistance type movements or exercises. I don't believe in sitting on a Stairmaster or a bike for hours, that's just not me.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Exercise

• I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'

  

  Jon Watts
  • Different
  • School
  • Remember

• I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • High

• Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Government

• I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Encouraging

• The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Real
  • Quality
  • Health care

• Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • High

• I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

  

  John Hersey
  • High
  • Hair

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