Quotes About Heights

#1. While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else. - Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them. - Author: Alice McDermott

#3. I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights. - Author: Jasper Fforde

#4. Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits. - Author: Anatoli Boukreev

#5. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights. - Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

#6. There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#7. In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. - Author: Augustus William Hare

#8. It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
possibilities and grander heights. - Author: Clarence Darrow

#9. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it. - Author: Czeslaw Milosz

#10. be like a bee and put your life into the sting! - Author: Joshua Heights

#11. The orgasm came upon her unexpectedly. It slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave. Her breath locked in her lungs as the climax swept over her, lifting her up and carrying her to untold heights. - Author: Donna Grant

#12. Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success. - Author: Simon T. Bailey

#13. There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To rescind is a concept from the days of the Inquisition. Our forefathers were burned at the stake and would not rescind their faith. - Author: Menachem Begin

#14. Heights don't bother me ... It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out. - Author: Jason Marsden

#15. Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain. - Author: Napoleon Hill

#16. Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#17. The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us. - Author: Kerri Strug

#18. My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling. - Author: Margo Kaufman

#19. Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started. - Author: Kwame Nkrumah

#20. Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. - Author: Anthony De Mello

#21. Don't tell me you're afraid of heights," she said, shimmying along the edge.
"Not heights," he murmured. "Just falling. - Author: Victoria Schwab

#22. As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it. - Author: Andrea Arnold

#24. The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in 21st Century! India & Japan need to join hands to take the pride of Vikasvaad to greater heights. - Author: Narendra Modi

#25. When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights. - Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#26. Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places. At - Author: Liu Cixin

#27. Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal. - Author: Yitzhak Rabin

#28. Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home. - Author: Amaleka McCall

#29. I don't know how high I went, I don't wanna know. Heights are not my favorite thing. It makes my balls go in my throat just thinking about it. - Author: Chris Kyle

#30. There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#31. Afternoon at the Coffee Shoppe slipped into evening just as Joshua's caffeination reached the heights of the Rwandan plantations where his beverage originated. - Author: Aleksandar Hemon

#32. We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him - Author: Salman Rushdie

#33. With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up. - Author: Sun Tzu

#34. Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire. - Author: Napoleon Hill

#35. A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. - Author: Horace Mann

#36. Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end. - Author: Sheila Jackson Lee

#37. I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit. - Author: Chris Lilley

#38. Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self. - Author: Jeff Lindsay

#39. I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights. - Author: David Oyelowo

#40. You'll never know what psychopathic heights you're capable of, just lying there on the sofa - Author: Josh Stern

#41. I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. - Author: Kate Hudson

#42. When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty. - Author: Jocelyn Moorhouse

#43. Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights. - Author: Scott Westerfeld

#44. When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do. - Author: Drishti Bablani

#45. Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what
your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will. - Author: Pierce Brown

#46. The truth is you can learn to love unconditionally and, in the process, open up your own intuition to heights you may never before have deemed imaginable. - Author: Catherine Carrigan

#47. I just found out that I'm scared of heights, Bri, he rasped out. Gone was the cocky jerk. This was my cousin, the one who had come to check on me when we were younger because I left and didn't wait for them. - Author: Tijan

#48. Who has known heights and depths shall not again Know peace - not as the calm heart knows
Low, ivied walls; a garden close;
And though he tread the humble ways of men
He shall not speak the common tongue again. - Author: Wheston Chancellor Grove

#49. When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you cannot dwell on their lofty heights all your life, if you are in trouble, you want at least to look at them. - Author: Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#50. When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. - Author: John Frusciante

#51. Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of. - Author: Robin Roberts

#52. Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet. - Author: Lao-Tzu

#53. It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree. - Author: Helen Fielding

#54. Sometimes you don't realize your fear of heights until you stand at the edge of the cliff, ready to jump. - Author: BlueMystique

#55. Hobbits do not like heights, and do not sleep upstairs, even when they have any stairs. - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

#56. Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond. - Author: Anthony Anderson

#57. until our faith is tested through challenges, obstacles, trials, and storms, it cannot be stretched to new lengths, deepened to new depths, nor grown to new heights. Faith must be tried to its limits before it can grow beyond those limits. - Author: Christine Caine

#58. The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. - Author: James Wolcott

#59. You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. - Author: T.D. Jakes

#60. A new love came into my life, a most beautiful one, one which will, I believe, stand the test of time ... Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love. - Author: Edward Weston

#61. No one achieves any great heights in life alone. - Author: Tim Sanders

#62. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary. - Author: Robert Thurman

#63. Let's see where today will lead us tomorrow babe."

~ Payton Heights - Author: Dela Cruz

#64. For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. - Author: Anne Lamott

#65. One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart. - Author: Zoroaster

#66. Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil? - Author: Elie Wiesel

#67. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#68. You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl.
"None," I said.
"I've heard that about you. - Author: Kenneth Oppel

#69. Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights - Author: Richard Paul Evans

#70. It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. - Author: Robert Payne

#71. Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight - Author: Agona Apell

#72. Spread your wings, tokshi, and fly. Soar above them, make their eyes tear as they stare into the sun to watch you reach new heights. - Author: Elise Kova

#73. Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding. - Author: Danica McKellar

#74. To reach great heights, we must refuse the negative opinions of people and passionately pursue your destiny. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do. - Author: Khaled Hosseini

#76. It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams
but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights. - Author: Bernard Kelvin Clive

#77. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion. - Author: Carla Gugino

#78. Sam inquired in a low voice, "You don't like heights?"
Caleb shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and replied, "Maybe it isn't so much a fear of heights as it is a fear of plummeting to my death. - Author: Katie Lynn Johnson

#79. Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast. - Author: David Wain

#80. All the librarians of my childhood. Who saw that a boy was afraid of heights and lent him wings. - Author: Fredrik Backman

#81. Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. - Author: Christopher Monckton

#82. I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. - Author: Marlon Brando

#83. Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. - Author: Paul Klee

#84. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#85. I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor. - Author: Andy Warhol

#86. I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and being in 'shul.' Prayers at nighttime, prayers in the morning. Everyone knows everybody; you walk your kids everywhere. - Author: Matisyahu

#87. The castle in the heights I thought I could not aspire to could so easily be mine now that I don't need it, I've already got my own paradise. - Author: Jay Woodman

#88. If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. - Author: Victor Hugo

#89. My heaviness comes from the heights. - Author: Antonio Porchia

#90. I have a fear of heights that borders on mania. - Author: Sylvester Stallone

#91. Embrace truth and peace as you breathe the joyful heights of inner fulfilling serenity. - Author: Angelica Hopes

#92. She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying. - Author: Atticus Poetry

#93. Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. - Author: Charlotte Bronte

#94. People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure. - Author: John McGahern

#95. MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D'Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don't know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable. - Author: Mike Tyson

#96. Scared of flying?"
"Nope"
"Heights?"
"Nope"
The plane shook again, and I closed my eyes, trying to take deep breaths.
"What is it then?"
"I have a fear of falling from heights. - Author: Laura Kreitzer

#97. Dropped
and falling
from such
heights
for so
long
that
maybe
I will have
enough time
to learn
flying - Author: Vera Pavlova

#98. To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius. - Author: Bruce Lee

#99. In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. - Author: Dennis Lehane

#100. From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books. - Author: Jimmy Reid