Heightening Quotes

#1. This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

Lord Byron

#2. Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Errol Morris

#3. Barrage of delectable sensations within her loins. Her whole being awakened to a heightening excitement as his tongue slowly traced around the delicately hued areola, and still she watched as if nothing more than a distant

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#4. I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

Paul F. Tompkins

#5. I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

Saul Williams

#6. I want to mark him permanently, brand him as mine. I grab my ankles to keep from grabbing him, digging my short, blunt nails into my flesh, the pain heightening my pleasure.

Cynthia Sax

#7. Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty's heightening. Lovely all the time she lies ...

Matthew Arnold

#8. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening ...

Matthew Arnold

#10. Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

Paul Goodman

#11. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

Sigmund Freud

#12. Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Matthew Arnold

#13. Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person's cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

E.B. White

#15. Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#16. She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.

Kiana Davenport

#17. We're all not exactly the same person online that we are in real life. I am not as happy as my Instagram makes me look. We are all heightening the positives and downplaying the negatives.

Kim Stolz

#18. The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

Odilon Redon

#19. Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George Eliot

#20. In Gnosticism, the way of salvation lies in heightening consciousness and returning to the transcendent spirit, with loss of the unconscious side; whereas uroboric salvation through the Great Mother demands the abandonment of the conscious principle and a homecoming to the unconscious.

Erich Neumann

#21. In the depth a light will grow,
A silver shine no shadows know,
Like wings unfolding in the sky,
That circle 'round a gleaming eye,
Turning darkness all away,
Even depths will know their day,
For every shadow has its end,
In light!
Life will return again!

Robert Fanney

#22. The Alexandrian School In opposition to the previously named Church Fathers, the Alexandrians openly embraced Greek philosophy, thought of it as being of divine origin, and brought its allegorizing technique into their exegesis.

Anonymous

#23. When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#24. When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Confucius

#25. The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

George Eliot

#26. As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property in man.

Ulysses S. Grant

#27. No, I don't have the slightest desire to rewrite the past or history or whatever. What I'd like to rewrite is the present, here and now.

Haruki Murakami

#28. I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

H.L. Mencken

#29. I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

Laura Mvula

#30. Being unique is highly over rated.

Rob Payne

#31. If you are angle, I am complement. If you are circle, I am circumscribed.

Samuel R. Delany

#32. I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

Quentin Blake

#33. I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

Christopher Hitchens