Top 100 Above All Else Quotes
#1. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'
Michael J. Fox
#2. What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.
Sam Hamill
#3. Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.
C.S. Lewis
#4. The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise.
Peter Mallouk
#5. Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.
C.J. Roberts
#6. You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom.
Sarah Noffke
#7. As has often been said, if you want to understand what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. Above all else, what anthropologists do is ethnography.
John Monaghan
#8. Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely
whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else
it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
Aberjhani
#9. Who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.
Michael Cunningham
#10. What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder ...
Medardo Rosso
#11. Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank
#12. (Everywhere I go as a writer - especially if I'm in drag as a "memoirist" - such fears seem to be first and foremost on people's minds. People seem hungry, above all else, for permission, and a guarantee against bad consequences. The first, I try to give; the second is beyond my power.)
Maggie Nelson
#14. I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
Patch Adams
#15. We have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.
Veronica Roth
#16. Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all else, and showed little patience for what he called "Priest craft" and "superstition.
Tony Horwitz
#17. Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages lives my only true freedom.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#18. If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.
Jack Nicklaus
#19. Rule # 48
Love your wife above all else ... after all, she is the one who can either keep you warm at night or make sure you never wake up.
J.J. McAvoy
#20. Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
Ellen Douglas
#21. Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.
Saint John Chrysostom
#22. The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow. Therefore meditation should be integrated with the flow of life. It should not dominate above all else.
Ming-Dao Deng
#23. True leadership, true and genuine leading requires intelligence, an independent mind, the ability to delay gratification, the ability to think long term, and above all else a spine.
Aaron Clarey
#24. A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else.
Rob Rienow
#25. The odds of finding the one you truly love above all else, is about 1 in 4 billion. The odds that the person you love, loves you back... don't even dream about it, it's not going to happen. Most couples today do not revolve around real love.
Dylan West
#27. For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.
John Eldredge
#28. A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
H.L. Mencken
#29. Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.
Jewel
#30. In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
Al Alvarez
#31. Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
James Dyson
#32. All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.
Carly Fiorina
#33. I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.
Ray Davies
#34. Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
Euripides
#35. I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all else. That is what God has laid on my heart and the message that I bring to you.
R.T. Kendall
#36. The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.
Ted Cruz
#37. The bar ... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.
Luis Bunuel
#38. I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.
Peter Drucker
#39. Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.
M.R. Graham
#40. I love poetry and my country above all else in the world,
Fyodor Tyutchev
#41. Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.
Herbert Schiller
#42. Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.
Gary Hamel
#43. The one truth he knew above all else was that faith had no power unless it was chosen freely.
Ryk Brown
#44. I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.
Robert Mondavi
#45. Before anything else, above all else, beyond all else God love us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition. God is in love with us ... God yearns for us.
Roberta Bondi
#46. I like good stories above all else ... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
Robert Kirkman
#47. Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.
David Amerland
#48. Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.
Stephen Charnock
#49. In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.
Cora Carmack
#50. I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.
Andrew Garfield
#52. The greatest roadblock to Satan's work is the Christian who, above all else, lives for God, walks with integrity, is filled with the Spirit, and is obedient to God's truth.
Billy Graham
#53. Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender
#54. Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.
Edward T. Welch
#55. Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
Daniel Goleman
#56. In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Robert Dale Owen
#57. Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one's self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.
Emily Thorne
#58. You can't let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above all else. Love is stronger than hatred, and you are made of love.
Amanda Hocking
#59. I keep my work in perspective. I place my happiness, health, relationships, and joy above all else.
Anonymous
#60. There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.
Rob Stewart
#61. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.
Wendy Davis
#62. To find Me and hear My voice, you must seek Me above all else. Anything that you desire more than Me becomes an idol.
Sarah Young
#64. Evolution cannot avoid bringing intelligent life ultimately to an awareness of one thing above all else and that one thing is futility.
Cormac McCarthy
#65. Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
Jeff Bezos
#66. Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it ... I awake to I AM here. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. (page 70)
Ann Voskamp
#67. Stay down! Wolf yelled, pushing Scarlet to the ground and hunkering over her body. A living shield. His instinct was still there, at least. The desire to protect her above all else. That was all the confirmation she needed. Feeling
Marissa Meyer
#68. The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#69. If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?
Peter Thiel
#70. God is our supreme pleasure. We prefer above all else to know him and see him and be with him and be like him.
John Piper
#71. Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Kofi Annan
#72. To wake, and sleep, and know that one is loved; to hear, as I hear now, the whisper of a footfall; to feel the touch of hands; these things, above all else, are to be desired. I count myself fortunate, in that, for a little while, I have known them.
Keith Roberts
#73. She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.
Michael Cunningham
#75. It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".
Anil Ambani
#76. We have been made to believe that a baby is basically a magical agent of change and that having one will, in one fell swoop, make your husband love you more, make your life more meaningful and, above all else, is the best thing you will ever do as a woman. I didn't care about any of it
Radhika Vaz
#77. That which interest me above all else,' he wrote,'is the caligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of the grass.
Colm Toibin
#78. Visiting the past is something like visiting a foreign country: they do some things the same and some things differently, but above all else, they make us more aware of what we call 'home.
John Arnold
#79. Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
Maureen O'Hara
#80. I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
Julie Walters
#81. People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
Zoe Marriott
#82. A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
Aristotle.
#83. The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power.
Tish Thawer
#84. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33
Tony Dungy
#85. She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#86. Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
Sydney J. Harris
#87. I want your heart the most. Above all else. You're exactly right, I won't stop until I have it.
Jeaniene Frost
#88. Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
Pearl S. Buck
#89. Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
Alain De Botton
#90. People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.
Francis Chan
#91. What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#92. Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.
Johannes Kepler
#93. If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony De Mello
#94. He told me that he always insisted on two things above all else in his players: That they were always trying to improve and always willing to put the team above themselves. If they weren't willing to do those things, he didn't want them at UCLA.
John Wooden
#95. And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end.
Jen Calonita
#96. And as long as she lives, as long as she thinks of me with fondness and the memory of our life together brings her comfort, I will honor her for it. I will love her above all else in this world and the next. And there is nothing you can do to stop it.
Anonymous
#97. A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland ... One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.
Arnold Beichman
#98. Do you know the quality all lions possess, above all else?" "No." I shake my head. "Loyalty," he says, smiling and showing me that adorable gap in his teeth. No matter how far apart we are. No matter the distance or time, I will never love anyone except you. Not ever.
Mia Sheridan
#99. Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.
Rachel Hoffman
#100. I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.
Carolina Herrera
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