Height Quotes - Page 11

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).

My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.

You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

I'm scared shitless of heights.

My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.

Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.