Quotes About High

#1. Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Emma Goldman

#2. In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

Antonio Gates

#3. The Japanese high command recognised the sexual needs of the men and provided for them. As a consequence, rape was not frequent.

Lee Kuan Yew

#4. I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.

Brian Bird

#6. When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

Joshua Lederberg

#7. Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said.
By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

Victoria Hanley

#8. A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Mike Shinoda

#10. When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

Seann William Scott

#11. The modernist preference for high seriousness is replaced by the postmodernist preference for playfulness.

Dharanidhar Sahu

#12. Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Sri Aurobindo

#13. Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

Tim Heidecker

#14. Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

Buzz Aldrin

#15. In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

Susan Cain

#16. A high and attainable goal and being focused on it, is the best cure for laziness, excuses, offence, and hatred

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The boy sang in a shrill high descant and seemed to be trying not to sing in tune.

Anton Chekhov

#18. I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

Mo Rocca

#19. When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

Will.i.am

#20. I've got an idea," Marasi said.
"How crazy is it?"
"Less crazy than tossing Wayne off a cliff."
"Not a high bar, but all right. How do we start?

Brandon Sanderson

#21. But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Miriam Toews

#22. To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

Vance Havner

#23. I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Christopher Gorham

#24. Because string theory is such a high-risk venture - unsupported by experiment,

Lee Smolin

#25. The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.

Jason Wiles

#26. Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?

Robin Hobb

#27. My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#28. Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

Dennis Rainey

#29. If we don't invest in our people and give them the feedback they need, we can't expect to have a high-performing business.

Georgia Murch

#30. The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Steve Winwood

#31. It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Dan Brown

#32. I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

Clarice Lispector

#33. I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Rick Renzi

#34. Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.

Steven Magee

#35. The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

Robert Hooke

#36. Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

Vanilla Ice

#37. The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate trooper from the American Civil War.

Winston S. Churchill

#38. Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

Marshall McLuhan

#39. Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.

Jean Chatzky

#40. I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

Hannah Murray

#41. I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.

Sara Shepard

#42. If there are fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on the table, I won't say no to those. Soy sauce is another one, even though it's awful - it's so high in sodium.

Misty May-Treanor

#43. Hadn't they watched any high school comedies? We should have been whipping him with wet towels at this point, ferocious in our fury to protect the sanctity of the girls' locker room. Instead, they were concentrating on strategic posture shifts for maximum cleavagization.

Kiersten White

#44. One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Gloria Gaynor

#45. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

John Steinbeck

#46. The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

Gwendolyn Brooks

#47. There was never any question, not for either of us, that we'd stay together after high school. Richie Wilson was the love of my life.

Jessica Warman

#48. High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.

Frank Portman

#49. I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

Jill Sobule

#50. Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

Gary Owens

#51. You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke

#52. When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

Alexi Giannoulias

#53. When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Paul Krugman

#54. Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

Clement Greenberg

#55. Is it terrible? Being cut off from spirit's high?" "No, because being with you is a greater high than spirit, drinking, or anything else could ever conjure.

Richelle Mead

#56. Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Gunnar Myrdal

#57. There is an access to ... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.

Ridley Scott

#58. I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.

Fred Armisen

#59. How come people don't do things like that nowadays? You grope around in the back of a sedan in high school and you think you're in love. Nobody gets swept off their feet anymore.

Jodi Picoult

#60. It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

Richard Florida

#61. Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#62. We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)

John Eldredge

#63. I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

Louie Gohmert

#64. I remember thinking, 'Sometimes you're riding high in April and shot down in June, but at least we have each other.' We were full of enthusiasm and color, and you could sense that something was brewing that could be amazing, but we weren't quite there yet.

Anthony Kiedis

#65. Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion.
Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#66. My parents were both high-school music teachers.

Renee Fleming

#67. Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

Naomi Wolf

#68. I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Eric Davis

#69. Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.

Francine Pascal

#70. I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

Dean Karnazes

#71. Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

Terence McKenna

#72. Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.

Tony Dovale

#73. Then as now, someone who's high on marijuana or hashish is only a threat to your safety if you happen to be a Dorito.

Kyle Williams

#74. I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

Charles Kuralt

#75. Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.

Rob Thomas

#76. When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.

Anthony Jeselnik

#77. The more my world spun, the more appealing he became. Don't get me wrong, I still hated him with a passion. His arrogance made me want to scream, but his ability to free me - if only temporarily - from my problems left me high. He was my drug.

Kody Keplinger

#78. It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

Rick Mercer

#79. Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#80. Despite the fact that logic tells us that we should not trust anyone, in any situation where the unknown variables are too many or the risks too high, we nevertheless go ahead and take what can only be called a leap of faith.

David Amerland

#81. I don't differentiate much between thoughts and words. To be
honest, I also have no high opinion of thoughts. I have a better opinion
of things.

Hermann Hesse

#82. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,

Meg Cabot

#83. A high church for the true mediocre.

Norman Mailer

#84. Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

Tony Dovale

#85. I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.

Eric Close

#86. Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking ... a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.

Sophie Kinsella

#87. The former slave told his audience that there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#88. The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

George R R Martin

#89. There are times when one's vitality is too high to be clouded, too elastic to stay down.

Willa Cather

#90. I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

Lindi Ortega

#91. Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

Alan K. Simpson

#92. When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.

Dolly Parton

#93. A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

William Lyon Phelps

#94. I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

Seth MacFarlane

#95. The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed greatly since fossilized life began on Earth nearly 600 million years ago. In fact, there is only 1/19 as much CO2 in the air today as there was 520 million years ago. That high CO2 was hardly the recipe for disaster.

Greg Benson

#96. The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

Beth Broderick

#97. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#98. I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order.

Melissa Marr

#99. In spite of everything, I still didn't miss high school. The real world, even with all its problems, suited me just fine.

Suzanne Supplee

#100. It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.

John Dyer Baizley