Higher Quotes

Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world.

Love is the higher law.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Fares are higher [and] people don't travel as much. If they don't do that, it doesn't have the trickle down effect into the economy and the other sectors.

Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.

Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it's going to go up a little bit higher.

I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

You see the unemployment rate is at a very, very low level. Job enthusiasm and manufacturing, business enthusiasm is at record levels; never been higher... We've got it going.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

The more noise, the higher I get.

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

Books are men of higher stature.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

[Donald Trump] gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than [Hillary Clinton] does ,among military members.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire.

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.