Higher Quotes

The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

Products are valued higher than services.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

I believe strongly that in order to compete against VOD, the Internet - any competition - exhibition has to achieve higher standards, more comfort in everything.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

The deeper within that you are coming from, the higher the perspective you’ll be able to have.

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.