Quotes About Friends In High Places

#1. How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.

Chloe Neill

#3. Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#5. I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Angela Carter

#6. I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

Michel Faber

#7. There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful.

Burt Shavitz

#8. When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.

Chris Rock

#9. It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#10. Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

Nenia Campbell

#11. I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Paul Ryan

#12. Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Christina Romer

#13. Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;

Adam Smith

#14. From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles Sumner

#15. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

#16. Watching him, Lady Aron placed her hand on his. "Would you teach me to do that? To skip rocks-would you, Jake?

Diana S. Zimmerman

#17. Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Ehud Olmert

#18. Is it truly possible to steal a life, if ... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.

Ki Longfellow

#19. You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Elizabeth Moon