Heart Over Height Quotes

#1. Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

Sri Chinmoy

#2. We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

Orson Scott Card

#3. The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

William Lloyd Garrison

#4. In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

August Krogh

#5. If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#7. God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day,

Nate Robinson

#8. Do not look on [her] appearance or on the height of [her] stature, because I have rejected [her]; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7

Anonymous

#9. For however deep the fall from righteousness, if but repentance holds the heart, there is a path - a stony and a cruel path - whereby the height may be climbed again.

H. Rider Haggard

#10. The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Honore De Balzac

#11. Leadership must be established from the top down.

Sam Nunn

#12. Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

Zachary Levi

#13. My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

Ray Romano

#14. A bolt that raised her heart to blazing height
And made the vertical the very thrust of hope,
And found its path at last
(Slow work of Grace).

May Sarton

#15. ... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.

Nicholas Gane

#16. We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.

Wendy Corsi Staub

#17. I have been ...
To every depth of my heart
To every height of my mind
To every extent of my world
I see only one name
It's yours ...

Heenashree Khandelwal

#18. But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.

Bible

#19. Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more.

Matthew Arnold

#20. Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Vicki Courtney

#21. I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

Joanna Trollope

#22. The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

Kim Harrison

#23. Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.

Paul W. S. Anderson

#24. If as a society we place more value on people for their physical appearance; such as weight, skin, eye color, and height, versus their heart and character, then we are draining the wealth and heart out of our society.

Leta B.

#25. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

Anne Bronte

#26. I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

Kirby Puckett

#27. When you love, age, height and weight are just .numbers I agree and filling that the heart, has its own way ... count people and things!

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#28. We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

John Kasich

#29. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

William Shakespeare

#30. My heart couldn't survive a fall, not from the height that my feelings had climbed.

Alessandra Torre

#31. His voice might be stern, but in the sternness there was still the accent of yearning love; his eyes might flash fire, but the flame was the flame of love.

William Barclay

#32. Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, c but the LORD looks on the heart.

Anonymous

#33. Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

Michael Jackson

#34. The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

Jack Ma

#35. A human heart breaks harder when it's dropped from a greater height.

Jodi Picoult