A Quotes
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“Above all, you want to create something you're proud of.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“Above and about me all was space. The sky was hazy blue, and from this vantage point, I could see all the way down the Via Roma, at the far end of the forum, to the bay. Its waters sparkled invitingly and I slowed, feeling my amictus fluid with my motion and the moving air. Even the cobbled ground seems happy to bounce its sound of hurrying feet to the buildings ringing us, and hear it back again.”
Source: Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion
“Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.”
Source: News of the World
“Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.”
“Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.”
“Above and beyond looking after your physical needs, it can be very helpful to think about what activities and hobbies make you smile. Make room for those things in your life, so you can look after your mental wellbeing and stay energized and for life's challenges.”
“Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.”
“Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing”
“Above anyone else’s approval, first and foremost be sure to get your own.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Above anything else, I hate to lose.”
“Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.”
“Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.”
“Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.”
Source: Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.”
Source: One Hundred Names
“Above everything else, be comfortable in the beauty that you're in.”
“Above everything else, beyond the long hardships, one out- come is the most invaluable. The sisterhoods. The lifelong friends and bonds that will never lessen. Years can go by, and I will pick up with each of those sisters as if a single day hasn’t passed. Only we can truly understand one another; not even our husbands can fully grasp what we’ve been through with each other and how ironclad those bonds are.”
Source: No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
“Above everything else, genuinely love yourself first. Self-love is powerful and it’s the best love that you will ever have. When you love who YOU are, your relationships will be healthier and your life will be happier. Self-love sets the standard in how we allow others to treat us and how we treat ourselves. Your happiness and well-being is important. Protect it by always valuing who you are!”
“Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.”
“Above everything kindness is real,
Save kindness all is unspiritual.
Above all else people are real,
There ain't no paradise but people.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Above her, he can see the trees and the bright, full moon, a shining coin of silver spinning through the sky. The first blush of sunrise on the horizon is still a ways off...”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Above her lateral line she was blacker than night; below she was a metallic silver. Her physically perfect body represented both the heaven and hell she possessed. She had the lustrous lines of a young mistress and brought all the trouble that accompanies one in her devious black eyes. She teased us by exposing herself from the depths but refused to surrender to our desires. Dreams and nightmares live in close proximity when marlin fishing.”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“Above her young, supple body, beneath her black, beautiful hair, her skin was grey- wrinkled and sagging and dry. And where eyes should have gleamed instead lay rotting black pins. Her lips had withered to nothing but deep, dark lines around a hole full of jagged stumps of teeth- like she had gnawed on too many bones.
And I knew she would be gnawing on my bones soon if I did not get out.
Her nose- perhaps once pert and pretty, now half-caved in- flared as she sniffed in my direction.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes appeared, followed by impeccably creased matt charcoal pinstriped light woollen legs, followed by the beautifully cut lower hem of a jacket, its black vent revealing a scarlet silk lining, its open front revealing a flat muscular stomach under a finely-striped red and white shirt. Val’s legs followed, in powder-blue stockings and saxe-blue shoes, under the limp hem of a crêpey mustard-coloured dress, printed with blue moony flowers. The four feet advanced and retreated, retreated and advanced, the male feet insisting towards the basement stairs, the female feet resisting, parrying. Roland opened the door and went into the area, fired mostly by what always got him, pure curiosity as to what the top half looked like.”
Source: Possession
“Above his head, the drip had spread, dark and blooming across the plaster. A spider watched him from a gauzy web above the washstand. Light from his shrinking candle reflected in the grime on the window. He was pretty sure there was something crawling in his mattress. His stomach growled its displeasure, and somewhere a pig slept on his nightshirt. But for some reason, he was pleased.”
Source: The Artist’s Redemption
“Above humanity, where the airplanes fly and birds circle the thermals, silence stretches for eternity....”
“Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.”
“Above me, Nigel is muttering in rapid French; I hope he's not telling me what to do, because my limited knowledge of the language does not yet include instructions on how to give head properly.”
Source: Square to the Puck
“Above me, sister moon and her union of stars.”
Source: Back to Grace
“Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.”
Source: The Greatest of Marlys
“Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.”
Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal
“Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.”
“Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind”
“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.”
Source: The works of Christopher Marlowe [ed. by G. Robinson].
“Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.”
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”
“Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!”
“Above the clouds, the sky is always blue and beautiful. Raise yourself above the clouds of everyday problems and enjoy this magnificent life”
“Above the clouds the sky is always blue.”
Source: The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition
“Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace.”
“Above the curving arc of the planet, a mammoth explosion plumed crimson and charcoal then erupted in a starburst of crystaline white which for a microsecond shone brighter than a sun. For the briefest moment he allowed himself to entertain the notion that they might win this battle.
Then the real battle began.”
Source: Vertigo
“Above the dark town
After the sun's gone down
Two vapour trails cross the sky
Catching the day's last slow goodbye
Black skyline looks rich as velvet
Something is shining
Like gold but better
Rumours of glory...”
“Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.”
Source: The Boy Detective Fails
“Above the dunes of Pawleys Island a choir of sea oats bent westward, tickling the sunset and waving g'night.”
Source: A Delirious Summer
“Above the forest of the parakeets,
A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
A pip of life amid a mort of tails.”
Source: The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
“Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones.”
Source: The Secret Place
“Above, the moon paled like a stone receding below water, tangled morning color rushed up the sky, trembled there in pastel uncertainty.”
“Above the policies, above the law, above the government, above the constitution, there is a higher principle, that is the principle of individual integrity, without which no matter how much policies and laws we create, we cannot ensure health, safety and sanity in the society.”
“Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.”