Top 17 High Mindedness Quotes
#1. I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Haile Selassie
#2. The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.
Ernest Bramah
#3. What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#5. Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Baruch Spinoza
#6. This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
Toni Morrison
#7. My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.
Ann Coulter
#8. An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
Charles Caleb Colton
#9. Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis
#10. It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. I learned, the field of interest was a man from Wales who could recognize all his sheep as individuals but couldn't recognize human faces, not even his wife, not even himself in the mirror.
Jon Ronson
#12. A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.
Ally Carter
#13. All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.
Ryan Seacrest
#14. All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#16. I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.
Mark Ruffalo
#17. It was time for me to take charge and live my life instead of letting something that had happened to me lead it for me. So many people had told me the same thing, hundreds of times. It was something I had to learn for myself.
Chelsea M. Cameron
