Higher Quotes

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.

In a weird way scientists understand things on a higher level but it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of time.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Once you start to question your life you get to a higher level of awareness. It's like turning a light on-voila you see you have choices and choices are sacred.

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating.

One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.

How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.