Quotes About The High Ground

#1. When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.

Marla Maples

#2. Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Marvin Olasky

#3. The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Peter Capaldi

#4. The high ground is defensible.

Ken Marlin

#5. Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

Peter Mandelson

#6. Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

Allan Dare Pearce

#7. Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do.

Richelle Mead

#8. When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.

Preston Manning

#9. Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already, they scramble eagerly for the position of likable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and hence be everyone's friend,

Joe Abercrombie

#10. Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Maya Angelou

#11. Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

Rudolf G. Binding

#12. One of the risks related to an environment marked by high rates of unemployment, low rates of economic growth, and poor education is that it may serve as a breeding ground for radical sentiment.

Frans Cronje

#13. The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.

Sarah Winman

#14. There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

Graham Joyce

#15. Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Arthur Helps

#16. Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Douglas Wilson

#17. David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire.

David O. Russell

#18. It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

Tom Ridge

#19. When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. His mother had hated him for looking after her, then hated him for leaving. Five years living with an alcoholic woman and no one had thanked him. If there was such a thing as the moral high ground it was surely he who occupied it.

Mark Haddon

#21. That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

Neil Strauss

#22. You can't keep your feet on the ground, hoping to enjoy the fruits of your labour. The fruits are on the top; keep climbing till you pluck them with your hands!

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. damn lonely on the moral high ground.

A.W. Exley

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Brendan Iribe

#25. After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.

Garth Ennis

#26. I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.

M T Anderson

#27. When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

Albert Einstein

#28. Chase rushed after her in pursuit. The woman lost one of her high-heeled shoes and Chase took advantage of her lack of balance to tackle her. They crashed to the ground.
"Why are you running from the ball, Cinderella?" he asked.

Stefania Mattana

#29. My advice to you, Elsie, is go with your heart, not your head, because your head doesn't know what it wants. It only thinks about the moral high ground. And if your heart isn't happy, when you try to share it, you'll make others unhappy too.

Sarah Alexander

#30. I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

Callan McAuliffe

#31. Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

David Levithan

#32. In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

John Hickenlooper

#33. I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

#34. The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

James S.A. Corey

#35. In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

Vitruvius

#36. One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

Tom Clancy

#37. Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Bruce Lee

#38. Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#39. Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.

Henry Blodget

#40. I am no longer tied to the cliffs
Threats don't hold any ground
I have decided to fly high
On the winds of cool complacence

Balroop Singh

#41. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

Salman Rushdie

#42. The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence!" Human leapt upward - startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. "Look how the fence throws me back down to the ground!

Orson Scott Card

#43. The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

Edmund Morgan

#44. And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#45. I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

Natasha Henstridge

#46. Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#47. You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

Richard LaGravenese

#48. History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others.

Steve Maraboli

#49. How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

Joseph Hall

#50. Echo withdrew into her hair the moment she entwined her fingers with mine. I hadn't touched weed in over a week yet somehow i floated above the ground, my blood ran warm in my veins and i felt high-no, not high ... invicible.

Katie McGarry

#51. In the beginning of the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men. They were so common that a stupid man was quite exceptional, and when they found him, they followed him in crowds down the street and treasured him up and gave him some high post in the State.

G.K. Chesterton

#52. There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.

Isaac Yeffet

#53. If you want to catch a dream
That lifts you high above the ground
You must break free of the things
That are intent to hold you down.
Because the secret to success,
The only way to ever grow,
Is to learn what to hold on to
And what things you must let go.

Emily Hanson

#54. I'm a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There's no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

Fennel Hudson

#55. There are so many ways of falling off the high moral ground you've carefully built up for yourself. Moral ground is like that - slippery at the edges.

Alexander McCall Smith

#56. Keep your head high. Ain't nothing to look at on the ground,

Rachel Van Dyken

#57. You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,

John Oliver

#58. Dear Adam,
"Flying high is marvelous, staying on the ground is great. What is really tasteless is staying in between."
Love Daddy

Sameh Elsayed

#59. Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.

Christopher Peterson

#60. People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

George Matthew Adams

#61. An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

Thomas Sowell

#62. If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

Rick Warren

#63. Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Mason Cooley

#64. Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.

Naomi Wolf

#65. 'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

Michael Palin

#66. The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...

Eve A. Floriste

#67. A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.

Simon Napier-Bell

#68. The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Frank Gehry

#69. Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

William Tyndale

#70. The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Chinua Achebe

#71. The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

Alfred Alcorn

#72. I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

Rachel Kushner

#73. And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

John Milton

#74. It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.

Alexander McCall Smith

#75. Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.

J.R. Rim

#76. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.

Gavin De Becker

#77. High heels are a plot against women, they throw our spines out and stop us from standing on the ground.

Jennifer Clement

#78. But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Marya Hornbacher

#79. People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Kevin Smith

#80. I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

Jack London

#81. We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.'

Timothy Griffin

#82. If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

Christian Scriver

#83. Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Marty Meehan

#84. Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Alan Dershowitz

#85. Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.

Helen Lowrie Marshall

#86. Sometimes, I need to be high off the ground to keep grounded.

Inbar Lavi

#87. And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Emma Thompson

#88. At the same time they both caught sight of a third curly flourish on a tree-trunk right in front of them, but it was terribly high up, at least three feet above the ground.
"That's it, I'm sure," said Sniff, stretching himself. "I must be taller than I thought!

Tove Jansson

#89. Do not lie on low ground, the torrent will take you
off; do not lie on high ground, the wind will take you away

Raj Doctor

#90. If you cannot see the rainbow because your face is down, don't argue that no rainbow is up there. Lift up your passion and take your dreams off the ground!

Israelmore Ayivor

#91. I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

Shannon Hale

#92. I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.

Stevie Wonder

#93. Why does she always have the moral high ground, what is it about women, always behaving so well and thinking of things we should have thought of first and shaming us?

Jill Dawson

#94. What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#95. We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Anthony Liccione

#96. And the moral high ground is a lovely place," Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. "It won't stop a missile, though.

James S.A. Corey

#97. An old mind is a thing to fear
The truth, in its purest form is boring
Through comedy, a person can hide his/her shortcomings and reach high ground.

Alberto A. Arcia

#98. Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.

Robert Fulghum

#99. I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

Florence Welch

#100. Things had changed between us in a profound way, something I think we both knew. All our fighting and nitpicking seemed so silly now. So did my endless agonizing about whether or not I should be with him. Once a man disposes of a body for you, the moral high ground has been lost.

Joanna Wylde