Higher Quotes

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.

It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

In Beverly Hills, the higher you climb, the farther you fall.

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

The nights I don't sleep it's because there's a higher calling telling me to stand guard.

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Things always look different from higher up.

A congressman from Texas sent out a tweet comparing President Obama to Hitler. That is ridiculous because at this point in his career Hitler had a much higher approval rating.

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.