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Quotes About High

Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
This was a high that could never be duplicated. It was a high more dangerous to a man's soul than any found in a drug. Because this high chanced an addiction to not just the pleasure, but to the woman. And he was beginning to fear he had found the woman and the pleasure that could become an addiction impossible to live without.
~ Lora Leigh
To the end of his life he remained convinced of the high calling of the genuine artist, and he knew that artists must sometimes toil in obscurity, and in the face of prevailing public opinion.
~ Lord Dunsany
The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.
~ Rudolf Carnap
For agony and spoil Of nations beat to dust, For poisoned air and tortured soil And cold, commanded lust, And every secret woe The shuddering waters saw— Willed and fulfilled by high and low— Let them relearn the Law.
~ Rudyard Kipling
He was nice enough, an old guy who got famous in the 1960s for doing drugs and getting high and calling it research, so you have to figure he was a bit of a flake and probably pretty immature, too.
~ Ruth Ozeki
There is so much talk about being offended by christianity because it is so dark and gloomy, offended because it is so rigorous etc. But it would be best of all to explain for once that the real reason that men are offended by christianity is that it is too high, because its goal is not man's goal, because it wants to make man into something so extraordinary that he cannot grasp the thought.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.
~ Salman Rushdie
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
~ Gus Van Sant
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.
~ Jim Harbaugh
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
~ Napoleon Hill
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
~ Abbie Hoffman
En torno a cada individuo, así en lo más alto como en lo más bajo de la escala social, se agrupa constantemente un mundo entero de intereses, con sus torbellinos y sus átomos, como los mundos de Descartes.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Of all the basic human values, surely freedom is the most basic and most important? Who could conceive of anything as stupid as giving away this priceless gift in order to be enslaved to a drug that doesn't even get you high?
~ Allen Carr
In general, Temple was forced to concede, he was a man who had failed to live up to his own high standards. Or even to his low ones. He had undertaken a galaxy of projects. Many of those any decent man would have been ashamed of. Of the remainder, due to a mixture of bad luck, impatience and shiftless obsession with the next thing, he could hardly remember one that had not tailed off into disappointment, failure or outright disaster.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You want to know what I'm wearing?" "Not unless you think it'll really get me excited." "I'm afraid clothes have to have women in them for you to get excited." "Maybe you could talk in a high voice." "Cut through the shit, Hap.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
You are poor to look upon. But inwardly you are full of wealth. You seem low, But you are exceedingly high. You are that which makes men live A divine life here below. Give to me, O highest Lord A generous share Of this heavenly happiness. And true peace, Which the world of the senses Is capable neither of understanding Nor receiving.
~ Joe Sharkey
South-east Asia's high savings rates, most of which flowed into bank deposits, lent themselves to outsize banking systems, which invited godfather abuse. There is, in turn, a pretty direct line from the insider manipulation
~ Joe Studwell
I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.
~ Joel Osteen
All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were darkened by; The Eternal Feminine Draws us on high.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
~ Casey Kasem
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Turkey in the straw, turkey in the hay,Roll 'em up and twist 'em up a high tuckahaw,And hit 'em up a tune called Turkey in the Straw.
~ Anonymous