Higher Quotes

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.

Some of you in this room support higher taxes. I welcome your enthusiasm and am glad to report that the IRS takes both money orders and checks.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us.

Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

the higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.