Stature Quotes
-
You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.
-
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.
-
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
-
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
-
For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
-
A leader of immense stature who always spoke his mind.
-
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.
-
I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
-
I just wish insignificance had more stature.
-
You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
-
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
-
You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
-
We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart James Stewart.
-
Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.
-
Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.
-
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
-
Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
-
Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.
