Higher Quotes

• Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

  

  Herbert Kaufman
  • Bigger
  • Empires
  • Makers

• You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Wish
  • Celibacy

• There is a higher law than the Constitution.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Higher

• Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Country
  • Moral
  • Social

• With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Moral
  • Restriction
  • Inferiors

• The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Athlete
  • Obsession
  • Executives

• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Quality
  • Difficult
  • Made

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

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • High
  • Higher
  • Low

• When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Share
  • Approach

• Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

  

  Gary Morris
  • Knows
  • Hero
  • Friendship

• For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

  

  Henry Norris Russell
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Assurance

• Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • War
  • Age

• When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Hair
  • Picture
  • Wig

• Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Design
  • Modern
  • Figures

• I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.

  

  George Clooney
  • Levels
  • Higher

• 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

• Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Friends
  • Forget
  • Snob

• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Persons

• Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.

  

  Michael Medved
  • People
  • Going
  • Standards

• When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

  

  David Rolf
  • Community
  • Consumers
  • Wages

• One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Development
  • Conscience
  • Servant

• We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

  

  Cody Lundin
  • Higher
  • Get Out
  • Fetid Pusshole

• First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Firsts
  • Educated
  • Backgrounds

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