High Sounding Quotes

#1. One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Albert Einstein

#2. I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#3. We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

#4. The worthy officer had just given birth to this high-sounding adverb ...

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.
False teachers use high-sounding words
that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty ... adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

Billy Graham

#6. And I implore those who hide behind the high sounding phrase called tradition, to realise that they throw this word around only to mask their unwillingness to change
- Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt

#7. O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Lord Byron

#8. Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Vladimir Lenin

#9. If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.

Francis Schaeffer

#10. Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high sounding titles to ravish the local girls, or boys, or sheep, whatever takes your fancy for all I care, and leave serious matters to your elders.

Andrew Ashling

#11. Everything worthwhile in life requires incremental effort

Radhakrshna Dasari

#12. A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

Jason Statham

#13. There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.

Shirley Corder

#14. A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#15. When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

Anita Roddick

#16. I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

Michael W. Smith

#17. High school sweetheart is such an
innocuous-sounding term for something that can tear out your guts.

Daria Snadowsky

#18. I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.

Robert Treat Paine

#19. Mum, Dad, Fergus... this is Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy

#20. The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder
at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

Claudia Schiffer

#21. Soulless. Banished. But never forgotten.

Julie Kagawa

#22. You are afraid of me?" Reed asks me, sounding unpleasantly surprised.
"Of course I'm afraid of you. You're menacing, you're overbearing, you're arrogant, and if you don't see that, then you can just add high to the list," I say, using my fingers to tick off his shortcomings.

Amy A. Bartol

#23. One evil begets another and another.

Bronwen Griffiths

#24. He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.

Wallace Stegner

#25. Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

A.W. Tozer

#26. In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Steven Wright

#27. Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

#28. The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
Of final belief. So, say that final belief
Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Wallace Stevens

#29. With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse

W. H. Auden