Height Quotes - Page 8

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Height gives you the initiative.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

Sleeping is the height of genius

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.