Taking The High Ground Quotes

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

Peter Mandelson

#2. I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

Christopher McCandless

#3. Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

Jim Gaffigan

#4. 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

#5. These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Elliott Carter

#6. Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

Frances Hardinge

#7. To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

Halsey

#8. Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.

Munia Khan

#9. The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Os Guinness

#10. '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

#11. To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Glenn Greenwald

#12. He that can work is born to be king of something.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

Henry David Thoreau