Quotes About Heights

#1. Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Johnny Depp

#2. The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

Pope Gregory I

#3. If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Roger Milla

#4. Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

Jenny Eclair

#5. So you see, the most vital question then becomes, what type of woman will conquer our hero? If she be of poor quality, he'll become a slave. But if she be great, then her greatness will elevate the man to greater heights than he could ever have attained on his own.

Bryan M. Litfin

#6. My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.

Sebastian Horsley

#7. If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

Jonny Lee Miller

#8. Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Ezra Taft Benson

#9. We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Steven Weber

#10. If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.

Debbie Ford

#11. It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

Victoria Alexander

#12. I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before ... fears of heights, claustrophobia ... only in cities, though, never in the country.

Jimmy Page

#13. They drew up her bosom to giddy heights, pinched in her waist, flared out her rear, and managed to suggest that Alexandra's had once been an hourglass figure.

Harper Lee

#14. If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly.

Andy Andrews

#15. Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

Daniel Burrus

#16. Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#17. There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Martin Luther

#18. Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

Stefan Zweig

#19. 'Summer Heights High' is one of my favourite shows of all time. I'm obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.

Erin Heatherton

#20. You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.

Liza Palmer

#21. A Person is Not Big or Small from Height or Weight.
It's the Thoughts of a Person that Makes him Small or Big.
You can Assess a Person only from Heights of his Thoughts ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#22. Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets ... . The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.

L. Tom Perry

#23. Mistakes can bring us to spiritual heights, or depths, which we would have otherwise not visited.

DovBer Pinson

#24. Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

Walter Ulbricht

#25. Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#26. The gods grant nothing more than life,
So let us reject whatever lifts us
To unbreathable heights,
Eternal but flowerless.

Pessoa, Fernando

#27. Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

Marcus Garvey

#28. I'm scared shitless of heights.

Mark Cuban

#29. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.

Holly Bourne

#30. There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

Henri Bergson

#31. Even if he survived the Sorcerer, there would always be another Sorcerer, bigger and more dangerous than the last. It was just a matter of time until he died the kind of gruesome death that was the very reason people had paralyzing phobias of heights.

Megan Westfield

#32. Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.

Marianne Williamson

#33. When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#34. It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#35. Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

Puff Daddy

#36. The best, most lasting changes are those which come about gradually; to reach great heights, a tree must first put down extensive roots.

Aprilynne Pike

#37. But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

Annie Dillard

#38. How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says "what mountains?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. I won't let you go. I'll follow you to the heights of heaven and the depths of hell to fight God and the devil himself to keep you.

J.R. Loveless

#40. No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

James Caan

#41. The depth of your challenges will determine the heights of your success in life

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#42. Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit," Gordinus told her cheerfully. "Sometimes rising to one, sometimes swooping to the other. To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.

Ariana Franklin

#43. The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

August Bournonville

#44. We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.

Lee Strobel

#45. What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Kate Bush

#46. New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

Roland Barthes

#47. They made a beautiful couple, with personalities as different as their heights.

Sheri Fink

#48. On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Evelyn Underhill

#49. But as all waves must, it had broken, and anyway, he'd always been scared of heights.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#50. Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Fredrik Bajer

#51. God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

C.S. Lewis

#52. Nobody can truely become a leader, unless he has performed feats for God. It is only possible to ascend to spiritual heights in the Kingdom of God, if you fully exert yourself.

Sunday Adelaja

#53. I could reach great heights with your love,and with longing for you
I will increase a hundredfold.
They ask, why are you circling him?
O ignorance, I am circling myself.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#54. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#55. If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude ...

A.E. Housman

#56. I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

Jamie Bell

#57. If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.

Emily Gowor

#58. Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Daisaku Ikeda

#59. Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.

Bryant McGill

#60. One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

Mary Gaitskill

#61. I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.

Beth Orton

#62. It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

#63. Bernd had got the scar on his forehead during the battle of Seelow Heights.

Anonymous

#64. Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on the heights, and he was watching there alone.

Thomas Clifford Allbutt

#65. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

Graham Speechley

#66. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#67. When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

Jeb Bush

#68. Selfless love is the elevator that leads you up the great heights of sacrifice to prove your depth of sincerity.

Shubha Vilas

#69. Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Rudolf Steiner

#70. And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Irving Langmuir

#71. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#72. We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Francis Bacon

#73. Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#74. The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

Galen Rowell

#75. I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don't move. From such great heights, it might not see you.

Scott Hutchins

#76. It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.

Josh Ritter

#77. May you find the confidence and courage to climb new heights.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

Jesse Jackson

#79. As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

Matt Redman

#80. If you put your best foot forward and if you overcome your fears, you will surely be able to attain the heights of success

Anamika Mishra

#81. But never has the Call been so clear
As now, when death's cool hand
Eases my spirit from my fevered body--
And I answer the Call of the Master -
The Call to new Heights.

Jessica Coupe

#82. Nietzsche has a very significant maxim. He says a tree that longs to reach the heights of heaven must sink its roots to the bottom of the earth.

Osho

#83. Even in the depths of despair, a person can soar to heights of greatness.

Beverly Cialone

#84. People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

Pete Carroll

#85. I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

James A. Garfield

#86. Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you're not afraid of heights.

Gavin DeGraw

#87. This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.

Maya Angelou

#88. I was overlooking the heights and I felt somewhere in between!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#89. The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

#90. I love ghost stories but kind of left them alone after my teens and came back to it after playing Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#91. Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before

Arsi Nami

#92. I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

Lucy Liu

#93. I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

George Carlin

#94. But already this isn't quite right. The first apartment I had wasn't on the island at all. It was in Brooklyn Heights, a few blocks away from where I would have been living in the alternate reality of accomplished love, the ghostly other life that haunted me for almost two full years.

Olivia Laing

#95. In fact, I didn't like heights, closed-in places, places that were too open - give me a phobia and I embraced it enthusiastically.

Kristina Douglas

#96. My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

Albert Camus

#97. I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

Freida Pinto

#98. Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#99. On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

Robert Jordan

#100. heights th' immortal Gods, Jove

Homer