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“That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.”

“The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.”

People Use Today Christian Form Jesus Natural Taken Missing Expression Shapes Band Weapons Capable Fallen Our Time Hypocrisy Fierce Prerogative High Places Pharisees Pharisaism

Author:Brennan Manning

“Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.”

Bird Flying High Places

Author:Voltaire

“I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.”

Stills I Can Light Running Prayer Perfect Forget Crowds Rings Loud Cracks Offering Killers Bells High Places

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.”

Sides Enemy Mountain Ruins Broke High Places

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach”

People Trying Kids Effort Achieve Hard Work Achievement Pretending Grapes Vines Famous Women Doing Your Best Trying Hard High Places Deep Meaning Grapevine

Author:Marguerite de Navarre

“And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.”

Men Giving Heart Reality He Man Giving Up Mold Don't Give Up High Places

Author:Neil Peart

“Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.”

People Opinion Sea Rain Flow Showers High Places

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.”

“Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.”

Body Spirit Causes Easy Justice Poor Powerful Struggle Rich Weapons Allies High Places

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.”

Eye Lost Heaven Power Fame Illusion Scientist Delight Chiefs Officials Revive Mirages High Places

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.”

Source: El Arte de la Guerra – The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

“I can't jump high, so I jump from high places.”

I Can Wrestling High Places

Author:Mick Foley

“One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.”

Men Mind May Moments America Evil Parent President Universal Down And Rewards Servant That Moment Idols Distrust Fragments Downfall Benefactors Public Servants High Places

Author:Charles Dickens

“What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”

People Thinking Inspirational Motivational Opinion Wise Words Highest Independent Philosopher Good Karma Think Of Me High Places None Of Your Business

Author:Wayne Dyer

“A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.”

Way Conditions Mankind Lonely Majority Pioneers Living On High Places Living Conditions

Author:Kristian Birkeland

“I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes crossed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.”

People Knows Needs Sometimes Spiritual Opportunity Lines Clear Grateful Ministers Looking Back High Places Personal Needs

Author:Billy Graham

“I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.”

Men May Stills Force Taken Kings Blessing Sacred Sovereignty Stolen High Places Kingship

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.”

War Evil Assumption Impossibility High Places

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.”

People Humans Running Causes Ability Fellows Command Sweat High Places Aphrodisiac

Author:Rick Bayan

“Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.”

Two War Dark Rooms Dog Moon Two Things Frightening Not Alone High Places Indigestion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.”

Seems Hate Modern Civilization Hatred Ultimate Institutions Manifestation Mutual Drivers Righteous Wrath Highways Glare Pedestrians High Places Modern Civilization

Author:H. Allen Smith

“It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.”

People Lessons Degrees Possession Manners Excellent Diets Feds Disappoint High Places

Book:My Latest Grievance

Source: My Latest Grievance

“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.”

Ifs Looks Stories Walking Wander Narrative Hiking Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Optional High Places

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.”

“Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding”

Sometimes Happens Fall Understanding Animal Weakness Prejudice Wounds Faculty High Places Concussions

Book:The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick

Source: The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick

“I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.”

Found Standing Distance Climbing Toes Distance Relationship Standing Alone High Places

Author:Xunzi

“People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.”

People Humans Fall Elements Weakness Factors Flawed High Places

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.”

Thinking Earth Powerful Influence Positive Thinking Substitutes High Places

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.”

Source: The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition

“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.”

Men Watches Battle Down And Critics Mma Survivor High Places

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, 'Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road' (Hab. 3:19).”

Heart May Christian House Voice Lord Feet Brother Mountain My Brother Climbs Orthodox Resolve Orthodox Christian Deer Triumphant High Places

Book:John Climacus (CWS)

Source: John Climacus (CWS)

“One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.”

People Knows May Reason Facts Government Ignorance Theory Dues Assumption Conspiracy Incompetence Conspiracy Theory Theorists High Places Devious

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“No matter how I say it, Donghae hyung holds a very high place in my heart.”

Heart Matter My Heart High Places

Author:Cho Kyuhyun

“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”

Men Optimism Investing High Places Small Man

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.”

Wells Self Lasts Jesus Christ Mad Texas Jim Crow High Places

Book:The Best of Simple

Source: The Best of Simple

“Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.”

Wind Pursue Slander Calumny High Places

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)

“We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”

Men Trying Stills Political Lying Politics Honor Politician Assuming Statements Code Indifference Cracks Contempt Expecting Inherent Accustomed Scandal High Places

Book:Women and honor: some notes on lying

Source: Women and honor: some notes on lying

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