Stature Quotes

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the front pages of the newspapers, and your pocket book.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

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.

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

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

What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

Books are men of higher stature.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand

Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.