Topmost Quotes

#1. A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#2. A tree there is that from its topmost bough
Is half all glittering flame and half all green
Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
And half is half and yet is all the scene;
And half and half consume what they renew ...

William Butler Yeats

#3. The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface ...

Hermann Broch

#5. Half a dozen badges slid out of the metal chute where returned coins usually appeared. Hermione scooped them up and handed them mutely to Harry over Ginny's head; he glanced at the topmost one. HARRY POTTER RESCUE MISSION

J.K. Rowling

#6. Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Jean Webster

#7. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#8. Yes, Harry Potter!" said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. "And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!"
"There won't be any need for that," said Harry hastily.

J.K. Rowling

#9. The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Donald Barthelme

#11. Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills.

Charlie Jane Anders

#12. The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.

Ruskin Bond

#13. Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

John Gardner

#14. Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#15. I have a heart-shaped hole. Like an empty bird's next, it rests among marigold-hued ruffles above the topmost hook of my corset.
The hole was not left by something removed, but for something anticipated.

Sharon Lynn Fisher

#16. When we love most, and love happily, then we are at our topmost bent, and soar further above the earth than anything else can carry us.

H. Rider Haggard

#17. Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.

Herman Melville

#18. The quiet twilight was still trembling on the topmost ridges of the heath; and the view of London below me had sunk into a black gulf in the shadow of the cloudy night, when I stood before the gate of my mother's cottage.

Wilkie Collins

#19. I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.

John Henry Newman

#20. What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?"
She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no other does," she said softly. "You must decide.

Octavia E. Butler

#21. In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.

John Steinbeck

#22. Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

John F. Carlson

#23. The topmost parts of the source file should provide the high-level concepts and algorithms. Detail should increase as we move downward, until at the end we find the lowest level functions and details in the source file.

Robert C. Martin

#24. It is thus that life at its topmost toss irks and pains. Beyond is ever the unattainable, the lure of the infinite with its infinite ache.
- Oh, life! oh, youth! of, hope! oh, years! Oh pain-winged fancy, beating forth with fears.

Theodore Dreiser

#25. See well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Diane De Poitiers

#26. I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us

Francis Hughes

#27. Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it's difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you'll be compromising your standards?

Frank Sonnenberg

#28. People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.

Deval Patrick

#29. Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Joanna Baillie

#30. I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

Todd Barry

#31. If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#32. Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

Bill Dickey

#35. The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

Yang Wanli

#36. It is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.

Steven D. Levitt

#37. In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!

Glenn Danzig

#38. They say the luckiest people are the ones with happy childhoods.

Nina Wirk