Height Quotes - Page 5

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Every man at three years old is half his height

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.