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“Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.”

Knows Men Light Depth God Love Height Sigh Repose

Author:John Wesley

“There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.”

Ifs Men Giving Purpose Universe Acting Elements Dignity Universal Function Supreme Height Distinction Horizon Ordeals Acting As If

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny

“I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.”

Humor Funny Height Not Afraid Width

Author:Steven Wright

“My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.”

Ifs Thinking Want Facts Night Fall Wonder Imagine South Height Awake Towers Impressed Biggest Fear Awake At Night Great Heights

Author:Ian Mcewan

“When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.”

Looks Suffering Lost Mountain Mass Buddhist Height Look Up Climbs Serene Vigilance

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.”

Want Trying Self Used Stuff Results Conscious Convinced Used To Be Height Self Conscious

Author:Geena Davis

“I love seeing the people that I have worked with reach new career heights.”

People Careers Seeing Height New Car New Career

Author:Tone Bell

“It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.”

Force Mankind Danger Tests Meetings Height Insecurity Conquest Restless Great Heights

Book:The End of Eternity

Source: The End of Eternity

“Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.”

Giving Helping Lying Perfect Secret Worry Ready Glory Advantage Ministers Height Ecstasy Nurse Cheat Spy Never Cheat Perfect Friendship

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.”

Ifs Giving Children Hard America Next Opportunity Groups Lucky Experiments Height Shore Grandchildren Landing Arriving Ethnic Groups Squalor

Author:Jon Stewart

“When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.”

Way Sometimes Enough Trouble Depth Surface Height Clash

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.”

Way Certain Love Is Height

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.”

Scary Eras Teenager Height Disgusting 80s

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.”

Ifs Knows Want Seems Hate Fall I Hate Height Get Back Ladders

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.”

Nations Progress Sacrifice Capable Height Rising Limitless

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.”

Humans Spiritual Fall Natural Moral Practice Adversity Code Height Arrogance Being Human Falling Apart Spiritual Practice Moral Code Amulets

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?”

Should Self Political Achievement Height Nonsense Orientation Scholarly Self Indulgent

Author:Alan Sokal

“We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).”

Want Giving Long Made Happens Giving Up Long Time Ministers Height Prime Dictator Prime Minister Long Time Ago Assad

Author:Tom Segev

“There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.”

People Knows Kind Art Made Certain Recognition Lifts Height Visible Great Art Great Music

Author:Pharrell Williams

“I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.”

Fall Imagine Tree Sky Walking Mirrors Height Stairs

Author:Beth Orton

“Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.”

Firsts Humans Doe Moving Language Emotion Brain Beats Areas Dancing Species Depth Musical Lifts Height Power Of Music First Date

Book:Migraine

Source: Migraine

“Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.”

Fun Size Dumb Height Scarring

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.”

Mean Stories Inspiration Careers Roles Successful Example Achievement Empowerment Height Concrete Successful Women Professional Career

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?”

Principles Taken Trump Depth Height Peter Unprecedented

Author:Michael R. Burch

“In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!”

Men Feels Lows Height Greedy Unsatisfied

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will always pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!”

Ifs Knows Art Audience Theatre Objectives Height Eagles

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Every man at three years old is half his height”

Men Years Three Half Every Man Height Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.”

Ifs Christian Church White Records Century Tragedy Height Historian White Supremacy Twentieth Century Supremacy

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.”

Men Forget Depth Height Great Men

Book:In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it

Source: In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it

“Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.”

May Mean Self Fall Christ Memories Sin Humility Weakness Stones Perfection Constant Height Distrust Clinging Stepping Stones Augustine

Author:James Stalker

“It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul. God comes in, and is everyone in me.”

Feels Looks Soul Destiny Humility Let Me Depth My Soul Height Our Destiny

Author:William Mountford

“Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.”

Firsts Government Speak Ready Israel Height Withdrawal

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.”

Doe Term Ready Compromise Height Treaties Territorial Peace Treaties

Book:Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue

Source: Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”

“Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.”

World May Art Soul Helping Eye Spirit Artist Process Art Is Window Infinite Depth Opening Height Transformed Goddess Sublime Vulgar Portal

Author:Ken Wilber

“People talk about discipline, but to me, there's discipline and there's self-discipline. Discipline is listening to people tell you what to do, where to be, and how to do something. Self-discipline is knowing that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life; you are the only one who can take yourself to the desired heights.”

People Self Happens Knowing Listening Discipline Responsible Height Self Discipline

Author:Mike Shanahan

“I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.”

People World Writing Book Different Life Is Powerful Numbers This World Color Reader Weight Assuming Endless Height Different Peoples Escaping Manageable

Author:Philip K. Dick

“If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.”

Ifs Knows Made Said Ideas Remember One Thing Metaphor Height Association Feats

Author:Robert Frost

“Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.”

Looks Height Noon Filth

Author:Euripides

“I never planned to be at the height of my career when I was 30 years old and going to my fourth Olympics. I watched the 1998 Olympics when I was 14 years old. That's what I wanted to do with my life. I thought I might have a shot at three Olympics max. This is way beyond the parameters of what I set out to do.”

Way Years Might Wanted Three Careers Shots Height Fourth Olympics Max Parameters

Author:Kelly Clark

“It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.”

Firsts Has Beens President Policy Clinton Barack Height Hypocrisy President Barack Obama

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.”

Ifs Trying Certain Gone Rocks Style Band Smart Presses Pops London Ridiculous Height Really Great Revival Rock Music Blur Oasis Brits Kink Blazers Ridiculous Things

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!”

Country Moving Interest Economy Office Rate Available Height Throwing Popularity Tickets Inflation Interest Rate

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way.”

Way Giving May Light Walks Path Feet Temptation Height Receiving Seekers Lofty Pitfalls Feet On The Ground Alone With God

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”

“Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.”

Wells Self Whole Certain Nations Taxes Rate Height Tax System

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!”

People Feet Ten Metaphor Height Tall

Author:Ruth Westheimer

“When you are very successful, you fly at the very high altitudes and up there you long for to be applauded by the Stars or by the Moon or by the God Himself, not by the people down on earth! In this case, I advice you this: Be humble; only then you will get the applause of the sublimes; only then, of the noble heights!”

People Long Earth Stars Cases Successful Advice Moon Humble Noble Height Applause Be Humble

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.”

Men War Able Greater Rights Honest Civilization Aim Criminals Insanity Height Scientology Greater Heights

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

People Men Life Littles Country Numbers Greatness Determined Height

Author:Victor Hugo

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